Story Location: Argentina
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Men are the Minority— Why Men Aren’t Studying Abroad
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In popular discourse, men have historically not been part of the minority dialogue – except, of course, when they are being asked to check their patriarchal majority privileges. However, in the realm of study abroad, men can finally claim minority status as they are vastly outnumbered by their female counterparts. To understand more, I asked…
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Queer Tango: Being LGBTQ+ in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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When I was researching study away programs and locations, one of the biggest factors was safety. There are many places in the world where it is not safe for LGBTQ+ individuals to live openly, and I was not prepared to go back into the closet for a semester. From the research I had done before,…
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STEM Majors Abroad — Making it Happen
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Students who major in STEM fields are much less likely to study abroad than their classmates in other departments. For this post I interviewed fellow IFSA-Butler students on the Argentine Universities Program who are STEM majors to discuss the unique challenges they faced before going abroad, what their academic experiences have been like since arriving, and how…
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Heritage Speakers in the Land of Porteños
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While many IFSA-Butler students in Buenos Aires learned Spanish in schools, a good number have been speaking it as a heritage or native language. I wanted to find out what it’s like as a native or heritage Spanish speaker on IFSA-Butler’s Argentine Universities Program, so I talked to my classmates about their experiences. The following are excerpts…
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La Universidad De Buenos Aires: They Do What?!
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Attending the University of Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires is ranked 11th for best universities in Latin America and is ranked 75th world-wide according to QS rakings. UBA consists of 13 faculties, 6 hospitals, 10 museums, and 3 high schools. I had the privilege of attending one of the institutions here in Buenos Aires. I…
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How You Can Do Directed Research Abroad
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I’ve been learning Spanish for practically all my life, so IFSA-Butler’s Argentine Universities Program (AUP) was a natural choice for study away. In addition, I was looking for a research aspect that would help prepare me for research in my academic future. For these two reasons, I signed up for the IFSA-Butler Directed Research Concentration in AUP. This post…
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How One First-Gen Student Prepared to Study Abroad
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As a First Generation student, there are many things that I have had to do for the first time. Others can ask for advice from their parents or their siblings about matters related to college life but unluckily I don’t really have that advantage. There are times when I have had to trust in the…
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Reentry: The Rough and Ruthless Truth
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When I landed in Buenos Aires, sweating from the inevitable humidity that plagues the city in the summer, I had only positive thoughts. I had been abroad before in high school, I spoke Spanish near fluently, I wasn’t shy, and I thought this semester was going to be easy and rewarding for me. Little did…
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Homestay: First Impressions
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It was about 7:30pm on the last Tuesday in February, and I stood nervously by the door to the apartment building in Buenos Aires. I rang the buzzer, and a woman in her sixties came to the door, smiling from ear to ear. It was Vicky, my new host mom for the next four months.…
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WV to BA: A Trip from One Ideology to Another
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Wheeling, West Virginia is known for producing a number of famous products and individuals, but it isn’t exactly renowned for churning out global citizens who trot around the world. When I started telling friends and teachers that I was going to be studying in Argentina for a semester, this became quite obvious. “I bet ISIS…
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