Category Stories: Career
-
IFSA Interview Series: STEM at Oxford
posted on
“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…
-
IFSA Interview Series: International Business in China
posted on
“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…
-
A Volunteer, Volunteering Abroad
posted on
A Volunteer Abroad The University of Tennessee, home sweet home to me. We have been the Volunteers since the founding of the University back in 1794. Saturdays in the fall are flooded with orange and white, fans singing Rocky top, and yelling “Go Vols!” as our football team runs through the T. We hold many…
-
How Working For An NGO In Argentina Strengthened My Spanish Language Abilities
posted on
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…
-
Indigeneity: New Ways of Thinking
posted on
While spending a semester in Melbourne, Australia, Aaron Smithson was prompted to think critically about the state’s colonial past and his own complicity in the oppression of Indigenous communities by living on native land and using native resources. https://youtu.be/VPC4BcLqdyM Aaron Smithson is an Urban Studies, History & Theory of Architecture, and History Major at Columbia University and studied…
-
How Study Abroad Sparked My Professional Goals
posted on
Planting The Seed At My Home University When I was in my junior year, studying computer science and public health, I didn’t have a clear idea of where I wanted to direct my interests. The public health class I was taking at college was centered around epidemiology and public health crises in America, focusing on…
-
How New Zealand Changed My Future Career
posted on
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…
-
How to Study Abroad as a STEM Major
posted on
Studying abroad was something I always wanted to do, and I knew Australia was the place for me. I have always been in love with Marine Biology, and that is what I decided to major in. The next step in my path to becoming a Marine Biologist was to study abroad in a place that…
-
STEMing Abroad!
posted on
I remember turning up an extra ten minutes early and as I stood outside my professor’s office, and I was super nervous—what was my first tutorial at Oxford going to be like? By Sophomore year, I knew I wanted to study abroad, but because most of my college’s programs were generally catered for Engineering students,…
-
Interning with Parliament – A Digital Story
posted on
“This internship made me want to be more engaged with the community that I was living in. This completely changed and enhanced the trajectory of my time in Scotland.”Madeline had the opportunity to participate in an internship at Parliament, inspiring her to explore the parts of Scotland many political members were passionate about. https://youtu.be/-PHm6XvwM0E Madeline…
Blog Categories
- Uncategorized (45)