Category Stories: Wellness, Health, and Safety
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Tips for Eating Healthy on a Budget While Abroad
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Here are some tips on eating healthy on a budget while abroad. It might be quite difficult to live in London and not spend thousands of pounds on food alone 鈥 the money you could otherwise spend on city exploration and traveling (trust me, I spent around 200 dollars on groceries in my first week). But…
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How Study Abroad Sparked My Professional Goals
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Planting The Seed At My Home University When I was in my junior year, studying computer science and public health, I didn鈥檛 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…
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5 Tips for Staying Centered While Living Abroad
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One of the main intentions I set for 2019 was to find home in my body. I vowed to make 鈥榟ome鈥 a state of mind rather than a place. As I departed my loved ones and hometown on January 1st to study abroad in London for five months, I knew this hefty goal would be…
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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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You Are Stronger Than You Think: 5 Ways I Dealt with Grief While Abroad
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My biggest fear before heading to New Zealand was not being able to come home in case of an emergency because I would be about 8,000 miles away. Before going abroad, I had only ever lived about an hour away from my hometown. It was a far-fetched problem that remained in the back of my…
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How to Overcome the Mid-Semester Slump
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1. Admit that it鈥檚 okay to feel down. No one likes to admit it, but being abroad won鈥檛 feel like the best months of your life 100% of the time. The pressure to feel like you鈥檙e enjoying every moment makes it hard to take a step back and let yourself admit that sometimes you miss…
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Bipolar Abroad
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College life presents many challenges, but for those students dealing with mental illness, it can seem like an insurmountable task at times. I speak from experience, as I cope daily with bipolar II, which is a manic-depressive mood disorder. Managing bipolar disorder while studying abroad can seem even more insurmountable, but with the right preparation…
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From Scotland to Israel – A Digital Story
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鈥淪cotland and Israel have both spent years trying to become what they are today, fighting for liberation in their respective spheres and will not stop anytime soon, so to ask them to be anything like the more tourist-responsive cities of Europe would be like asking them to forget everything they stand for.鈥漅ikki Eble鈥檚 decision to…
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How to Break Your Ankle Abroad
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There is no 鈥榞ood time鈥 to break a bone. Breaking one鈥檚 ankle abroad might be the most inopportune timing. Unfortunately, it happened to me! I don鈥檛 get to have the fun story of saying I was zip lining or cliff rappelling, because I broke my ankle while walking down a hill during a school field…
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Cheers to Edinburgh
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There is a huge stigma associated with mental health issues in the United States, and this causes people struggling with them to pretend they don鈥檛 exist. I was, and am, lucky because I had one of the strongest support systems in my parents that anyone could have wished for. I had people to talk to…
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