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5 Tips for Backpacking Around Europe
In the fall of 2015, I had the privilege of being able to study abroad at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. While there, I spent a bunch of my time visiting other countries. I haven’t been able to really quantify the experience that I had abroad. Since I’ve been home, I have had…
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How Study Abroad Changed My Life – A Digital Story
Not only did I get a taste of a new world, but I got a taste of freedom that I was not aware I was lacking. https://www.youtube.com/embed/IwISDTw0kiM?feature=oembed Emely G. | University of Redlands | IFSA-Butler at Royal Holloway, University of London in England | 2015
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How I Learned the Culture of the London Underground – A Digital Story
Growing up in New York City… I assumed there would be no surprises on the underground in London. I did not find out how wrong I was until I rode the tube in full costume to the IFSA-Butler Halloween party. https://www.youtube.com/embed/wVhY4VMtY3o?feature=oembed Jessica C. | Psychology student | Wesleyan University | University College London Partnership in…
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Mind the Gap
While studying abroad in Scotland, my friend and I decided to take the short four-hour train ride through the beautiful British countryside to one of the most historic and iconic cities in the world: London, England. I believe that Samuel Johnson said it best: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of…
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5 Tips to Keep the "Study" in Your Study Abroad
People choose where they study abroad for many different reasons, but one of the threads that links everyone together is their desire to study in another country. There are many ways a person learns while studying abroad, but in the classroom is an important one. When I studied abroad at University College London in London, England, I…
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An Athlete Abroad
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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Studying Abroad as a Woman of Color
If you’re a student of color who is interested in going abroad, it can be both exciting and challenging. You learn to navigate a new environment with an entirely different history and because of that, an entirely different political climate. That results in different attitudes about issues of race and ethnicity. I identify as a…
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Study Abroad: Snapshots in Time
January Two weeks into my semester in Oxford, I’m attending my first hall dinner. Candles light the room-length dining tables, and the three-course menu is printed on what seems to be parchment. The waiters are all in tuxedos. I’ve never attended such a formal event before. Everyone suddenly stands, and I scramble to my feet…
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Student Life at Oxford: Clubs and Societies
At my US college, people struck up conversations in hallways, in classrooms, in the dining hall, even in line for coffee. I realized this five minutes into my college career: freshman year I was moving into my dorm room when a boy in my hall, fresh from the shower, and a complete stranger, stopped to…
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Skydiving In Scotland And Why My Parents Couldn’t Say No
In preparation for writing this post, I read back through the journal that I kept while abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland. I tried to write an entry every day, and was successful in that endeavor most of the time. It was important to me that I chronicle my time abroad. I had been warned that the…
