Heading Across The Pond

Heading Across The Pond

Four more days remain until I embark on what is about to be the experience of a lifetime. I have anticipated this day coming for what seems like a lifetime since I started the process for studying abroad. More effort than I could ever imagine went into booking this...

Incoming to Ireland

As a Chemical Engineering student, I had resigned myself to the fact that a study abroad for an entire semester was going to be impossible. Sophomore year, when I realized if I completely rearranged my schedule for the next 3 years there was a possibility to make it...

FC Barcelona takes on Granada

Barca! Clap, clap, clap. Barca! Clap, clap, clap. Barca! Clap, clap, clap…And the game is underway. The crowd is roaring, the players are running, and my heart is pounding. The atmosphere is INCREDIBLE. I had never been to a professional futbol game, much less in...

Reflections on Barcelona

Barcelona was a major culture shock, even compared to London.  The language barrier made communicating next to impossible, but at the same time I fell in love with the city.  The culture and history of the city amazed me.  I could have stayed there for another year...

Cielos de Sevilla

How can I describe my time abroad thus far? It seems to me that no words will do the change, the joy, the pain, the shock, the awe of the past three weeks any justice. But I have chosen to be honest with myself about this experience, and therefore, I must be honest...

Reflections on London

London was a wonderful experience.  We did not start classes while in London, but I felt as if I learned as much as if I had been in class.  I saw an entirely new culture to myself and at first was a little nervous about it.  I did not know anyone on the trip before...