by Alexandra S | Jun 16, 2017 | Arts & Sciences, Central America, Faculty-Led, Summer, _
Returning from Nicaragua was much more difficult than I had anticipated. I had just began to get used to the heat, the food and using Spanish more than English. Above all, I felt like I had not spent enough time in the clinic. It almost seemed unfair to go down to...
by Ethan S | Jun 16, 2017 | Arts & Sciences, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
6/14/17: This trip to Spain has truly been one for the books. As the trip comes to a close, I reflect on how this trip has changed me. For starters, my Spanish speaking skills have improved tremendously. Our facilitators implicated a “Spanish only policy” on us at the...
by Shameea L | Jun 16, 2017 | Commerce & Business, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer, _
This experience has really been a dream come true for me. Although it has had many downfalls, I have experienced many high points that has made this study abroad experience worthwhile. Our first week was spent in the beautiful city of Paris. Although they try to...
by Alyssa B | Jun 16, 2017 | Arts & Sciences, Central America, Faculty-Led, Summer
Nothing compares to field experience. You can spend months in a classroom studying something but until you see it out in the real world your perception of it is never quite true. You need to see it in relationship to the other things in its environment and then you...
by Caroline B | Jun 16, 2017 | Arts & Sciences, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
Now that the first of the two sessions I am spending in Spain is coming to an end, I can think of a number of things I wish I could tell the pre-departure version of myself. Before departing, I had a wide range of feelings surrounding this experience. I am a huge...
by Genevieve A | Jun 16, 2017 | Arts & Sciences, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
When you arrive in a new country to study abroad, odds are you will have probably already given a lot of thought to the differences in culture. But I had underestimated just HOW different (and all-consuming) the French food culture is. From my first day in France, I...