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  • Engineers Abroad: 4 Tips to Make it Happen

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    Engineers Abroad: 4 Tips to Make it Happen

    For engineers, it can be difficult to study abroad. Many schools only want you to take engineering courses with their professors. Many courses have laboratory components that make it difficult to take equivalent courses elsewhere. However, I, as an engineering student at Cornell, was able to study abroad in Ireland during the spring semester of my…

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  • Alumni Advice: Don’t Let “Likes” Dominate Your Abroad Experience

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    Alumni Advice: Don’t Let “Likes” Dominate Your Abroad Experience

    Technology dominates our life. There’s no way to avoid it, but there is a way to manage it.  Technology can make studying abroad a lot easier. It allows you to easily connect with people at home and it makes navigating around a foreign city a lot easier. But technology, specifically social media, should not dictate…

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  • Feelin’ the Aussie Love

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    Feelin’ the Aussie Love

    Night is always my reflection and thinking time. And as I sit at Darling Harbor surrounded by my IFSA crew  and beautiful scenery I think back on the month that flew by. And though this is unfair to say to my home, I have fallen madly in love with this country. Or at least Sydney.…

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  • The Intern Life: Scottish Parliament

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    The Intern Life: Scottish Parliament

    6:45 – Wake up! I know it’s early, but get excited to start a new day at Parliament! 7:50 – Leave Robertson’s Close (your University of Edinburgh accommodation) and start your walk to Holyrood Feel free to stop in Holyrood cafe, Starbucks, Cafe Nero, or the Parliament cafeteria for breakfast along the way. (Tip: What we call ‘coffee’ Scots call…

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  • What’s On – A Digital Story

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    What’s On – A Digital Story

    “The English enthusiasm for theater is something I really wanted to put in my pocket and bring back to my hometown.”Angela did not expect to find such rich passion for the performing arts in London, but it further inspired her to study her calling of acting! https://www.youtube.com/embed/ag-BCckK5dg?feature=oembed Angela G. | Acting student | Illinois State…

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  • Outdoor Education: A Digital Story

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    Outdoor Education: A Digital Story

    https://www.youtube.com/embed/xXaiheBAaZ4?feature=oembed Hannah S. | Middlebury College | University of Sydney Partnership in Australia | 2013

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  • Katie’s Story: A Digital Story

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    Katie’s Story: A Digital Story

    https://www.youtube.com/embed/p1bN67BfldY?feature=oembed Katharine C. | Duke University | James Cook University Partnership, Cairns in Australia | 2012

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  • This is My Classroom – A Digital Story

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    This is My Classroom – A Digital Story

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9vuZXa9jOM Amy M. | Franklin and Marshall College | University of Otago Partnership in Dunedin, New Zealand

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  • 10 survival strategies for the first week of classes abroad

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    10 survival strategies for the first week of classes abroad

    New campus. New students. New professors. New subjects. New regulations. New languages.All of the change associated with studying at a new school is enough to drive even the most competent student mad. Here are a couple of tips I picked up from my experience of “syllabus week” at a foreign university. Get enough sleep: Just…

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