• How To Make The Most Of Your Study Abroad Experience

    How To Make The Most Of Your Study Abroad Experience

    This is a topic that I am pretty passionate about. I’m actually somewhat qualified to talk about it for two reasons: Firstly, I am studying abroad in Massachusetts at this very moment, and secondly, I met my boyfriend while he was having an incredible study abroad experience at my school in England.

  • Study Abroad Diaries

    Study Abroad Diaries

    Why, then, has this past week been one of the most stressful of the year (a close third to finals week and The Bachelorette finale)? Even the most detailed lists of clothes, travel documents, and precise amount of Luna bars needed to see me through Ibiza could do nothing to quell my pre-departure jitters.

  • How To Survive Your Reverse Culture Shock

    How To Survive Your Reverse Culture Shock

    You lived, you learned, you loved. Now you are back at your home campus and in a total funk. What happened to the campus you used to love and why is everyone rolling your eyes when you start telling hilarious study abroad stories? Coming back home after going abroad can be a surprisingly weird experience and it’s normal to experience reverse culture shock.

  • Morning After: Okay, Maybe Wine Juice Boxes Aren’t a Good Idea

    Morning After: Okay, Maybe Wine Juice Boxes Aren’t a Good Idea

    Wine is cheap in Europe, super cheap. I made that discovery early on during my semester abroad, and took advantage of it during my spring break in Italy. As all college students know, boxed wine in the States is a great invention which allows for portable drinking, but this idea has been one-upped in Europe, with the creation of what my friends and I would lovingly refer to as “wine boxes.”

  • My Life As…An International Student

    My Life As…An International Student

    Being an international student is kind of like being a celebrity. No, seriously, hear me out. Everybody wants to talk to you. Everybody think you’re really interesting. Everybody is fascinated by you. At first.

  • The Morning After: Hot Mess Abroad

    The Morning After: Hot Mess Abroad

    I am currently studying abroad in an unspecified location in the world. We’ll just say… not in the U.S. (really narrowing it down there). My host university always organizes events at bars and such for students, but my roommates and I usually just pass on them because they just wind up being these huge all-American fests.

  • College Students Drink and a Few More Obvious Studies

    College Students Drink and a Few More Obvious Studies

    So the current issue of Psychology of Addictive Behaviors (which sounds like a very legit publication) released a study that I think you’ll find quite interesting. “Interesting” in that you wouldn’t have expected the results, not in a million years, and that your life will be forever changed. Okay, are you ready for me to enlighten your narrow, sheltered mindset? Here’s their big finding: “Students who go abroad while in college are likely to increase or even double their alcohol intake while they’re away.”

  • Friends That Go the Distance… Literally

    Friends That Go the Distance… Literally

    It goes without saying that there is an enormous difference between being two doors down from someone and 2,000 miles apart. As junior and senior year of college approach, destinations like Italy and France begin whispering into the ears of undergrads, luring them into the idea of studying abroad.

  • Duke It Out: Study Abroad

    Duke It Out: Study Abroad

    The time has come once again to start picking classes for spring semester (really? didn’t we just do this?) and my mind turns to places that won’t be covered in grey slush come January. Places with warm, sunny vistas and boys with sexy accents. In other words, places abroad.

  • A Lesson for Those Studying Abroad

    A Lesson for Those Studying Abroad

    Let’s just hope you never have to know how to say this one. Although, from our experiences…

  • Things To Consider When Studying Abroad — And I’m Not Talking Moneybelts.

    Things To Consider When Studying Abroad — And I’m Not Talking Moneybelts.

    If you’re lucky, you’ll be studying abroad this summer instead of taking a load of…