Category Stories: Academics
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IFSA Interview Series: STEM at Oxford
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“I feel like there should be a MythBusters episode on the notion of Cambridge being better at sciences and Oxford being more humanities oriented. I can speak at least for chemistry that Oxford has a really academically excellent and rigorous program. They also a lot of math and science clubs where once can find their…
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IFSA Interview Series: International Business in China
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“My internship abroad grew my Chinese language skills and differentiated me in such a competitive workplace that we find ourselves in today. When studying abroad you are definitely going to run into challenging situations where you don’t know where you are and no one speaks English, but those times are important because… professionally I learned…
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How I’m Surviving 2 Sciences in the UK
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I have been abroad for nearly two months now and finally feel like I am surviving 2 sciences in the UK! I arrived thinking I would be taking three science courses—Physiology, Basic Biochemistry, and Electric & Magnetic Fields—and one drama course. An overlap in my timetable required that I drop Physics. I chose to replace…
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How Working For An NGO In Argentina Strengthened My Spanish Language Abilities
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There are a lot of academic and professional stress factors that go into the big decisions around studying abroad. For me, I worried about how studying abroad would affect getting an internship. That fear got even worse when I realized going to my dream country, Argentina, where the semester lasts from March to July, would…
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Feeling Like a Freshman Again
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Saying goodbye to my friends and family as I finished packing my suitcases to travel to London brought nervousness, and the feeling of knowing I had new roads ahead of me brought butterflies to my stomach. I had to ignore these temporarily as I was focused on making my way through security and getting to…
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Living My Goals in Argentina
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“My goal was music. How I realized that goal was by doing something I could have never imagined before. ” https://youtu.be/Bx7rBOwYCpw Julie W. | Public Policy major | Duke University | IFSA Argentine Universities Program | 2018
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5 Differences Between US and UK Academic Systems
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I have found 5 Differences Between US and UK Academic Systems during my time studying abroad. As an education major, I have spent a lot of my time in different schools learning different teaching styles. Coming to the UK has shown me a new and more focused style of teaching and learning. These are the…
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Bucket List Goals: With the IFSA Learning Plan, You’re Not Alone
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Before studying abroad with IFSA, all students fill out an application stating the goals that they want to achieve while studying abroad. The goals are framed in three categories: professional, academic, and personal. The IFSA learning plan is then reviewed and revised with IFSA staff during several meetings on campus during your study abroad experience…
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How New Zealand Changed My Future Career
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STEM and study abroad: are they mutually exclusive? Ever since my first semester at Tulane, I can remember hearing about study abroad events. As an undeclared biomedical engineering major, I ignored the study abroad fliers passed around in my core classes, the invitations to attend seminars about studying abroad, and the presentations by liberal arts…
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How Volunteering Abroad Changed Me
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Why Volunteer? Throughout my undergraduate career, my experiences that I have had outside the classroom have always been the most transformative. In fact, volunteering as an English literacy tutor in an elementary school near my high school five years ago was what got me interested in learning Spanish in the first place. Bringing learning outside…
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