Story Location: England
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From Regret to Optimism: Finding Common Ground in a Foreign Institution
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Re-posted with consent from Lea Morin and the Amherst Global Education blog, Beyond the Bubble: The overarching feeling I鈥檝e had since my journey to London has been one of regret. Leading up to my departure, I was on campus working and observing the start of the Fall semester at Amherst as an outsider. I didn鈥檛 get to share…
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5 Lessons That I Learned 5 Years Later
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After first visiting London as a tourist five years ago, I returned this year to live and study in the city for the semester, and oh what a different experience it has been! Here are five lessons I have learned over the past four months living in London鈥ocation: Along River Thames near Tower Bridge.Lesson 1:…
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How To Overcome First Generation Hurdles While Studying Abroad
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Let me start by saying that I am a first-generation college student who grew up in poverty. I have also struggled with depression and anxiety for most of my life. At one point, I started failing classes and had to drop out of college for a year and a half. Studying abroad has always been…
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What Life is Like as an LGBTQ+ Student at the University of Sussex
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Views on the LGBTQ+ community differ greatly depending on what country you are in. This can make studying abroad as an LGBTQ+ student a bit scary. I am demisexual, meaning that I can only be sexually attracted to somebody if we have a strong emotional connection, but beyond that I am a cisgender heterosexual female.…
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3 Must-visit London Museums
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London has a lot of great museums. Since they have great educational value, and most of them are free, they will probably become your go-for activity if you decide to study in London. But with such a variety of museums, you might ask yourself which of them are worth your time. You might choose to…
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Digital Story: The Experiential Conservationist
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鈥淚 started making an effort to try to capture the day-to-day, like walking in the park every Sunday. Moments we might otherwise let slip away after returning from studying abroad. Memories that would become endangered by time and our distance from London.鈥 https://youtu.be/jptyYvR9_U8?si=q08sZjdb4KMuCDli Rowen L-W. | English and Media Studies Major |聽Scripps College | Queen…
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Applying to Internships While Abroad
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As a junior, it is expected that I will have an internship the summer before my senior year to prepare for life after college. However, I never anticipated I would be abroad when trying to apply for these jobs. I realized I would need to put in ten times as much effort as I would…
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What Makes Cambridge Unique?
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How Cambridge Changes My College Experience Most of us have heard about Cambridge at some point in our childhood: that it is one of the hardest universities to get in and only the most talented are admitted there. My decision to study abroad for a semester at Cambridge was partly informed by this childhood dream…
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Finding a Faith Community in a Secular Country
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If you鈥檙e like me, you spend an awful lot of time worrying about the state of your immortal soul. And as a first-generation college student鈥攁t that, one whose parents had never left the country鈥攊t was a source of some anxiety for me, whether I鈥檇 be able to practice my religion to a sufficiently neurotic extent…
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How I Studied Abroad as an International Student
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How I Studied Abroad as an International Student (and Why You Should Too) An International Student Abroad As a Colombian international student going to college in the US, I had several hesitations with regard to studying abroad. I almost discarded the possibility of going abroad thinking about all the arrangements that had to be made…
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