Category Stories: Student Athletes
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Making Your Host University a Home: How Women’s Soccer Transformed My Study Abroad Experience
Marisa Braverman
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As I prepared to go abroad in the fall of 2016, one question continued to worry me about my upcoming studies: how was I going to get involved in a community that I only got to spend half a year with?After all, one of the most significant reasons that had motivated me to study abroad…
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Mad to Live: Engaging in Action Sports and Their Respective Communities
Marisa Braverman
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I was extremely fortunate to spend much of my time in South America pursuing my passions and dreams of backpacking, skiing, surfing, and mountaineering. To supplement my memory of the experience I wrote journal entries, landscape descriptions, and poems. Here is a journal entry from 25thof July, 2017 Miercoles, Día 16 con los Avydonkeys, Day 8…
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A Routine Abroad: The Lessons I Learned from a Busy Schedule in New Zealand
Marisa Braverman
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When you begin to think about going abroad, anybody who has spent time studying in another country will tell you that it was the best semester/year of their college career. They tell you about the people they met, the classes they took and the things they saw. Just by talking to them, you can tell…
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How to Play Pick Up Like a Porteño
Marisa Braverman
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I wasn’t in Buenos Aires 24 hours before I was being stared in the face by a massive plate of french fries covered in melted cheddar and bacon. In the back of my head, I heard the faint beeping of the YoYo Intermittent Recovery Test (a common fitness test used to test athletes on their…
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D.U.D.E.
Marisa Braverman
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It was cold…and wet…and windy. Of course. But, it was still ultimate. By the time I reached Dunedin, New Zealand, I had been playing high-level college competitive ultimate frisbee for two years. In that time, I had gone to College Division 1 Nationals once and travelled across the country a few times to compete at…
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5 Tips for Staying Fit Abroad
Marisa Braverman
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It seems when you find a routine that works, it gets completely switched up on you. Like many other people, I was reluctant to change when I got to Dublin. The first thing I did when I arrived to IFSA-Butler orientation was sign up online for a gym membership. The second day I was still…
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An Athlete Abroad
Jon Erickson
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The light from my computer reflects off of my glasses. My eyes are scanning the page at breakneck speed. Click, click, click, my fingers fly across the keyboard and furiously venture deeper into the virtual realm. Italy, England, Greece, Ireland, Scotland, Poland, and many more countries are listed in my laptop’s history. I need to go to…
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How Golf Defined My Experience in Scotland
Jon Erickson
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The bus left our hotel in Edinburgh where we had our orientation bright and early that morning. Within an hour, my new friends and I were pulling into the quaint town of St Andrews, but it wasn’t the town I had travelled so far to see. Ruth, our lovely Program Director, took us on an…
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