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Joining “The Night Club,” a Woman-led Run Club in London

I don’t run outside often; I prefer running on the treadmill. It feels safer, easier to control, and a little less unpredictable. But on September 27th, I joined the first ever “The Night Club” run, a 5K through London’s lush and spacious Hyde Park, surrounded…
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New Zealand

Mid-Semester Break?

Let me start off by saying that last time, I spent way too much time talking about the school aspect of study abroad and not enough time talking about the traveling aspect. If traveling is the aspect you were looking for in my blogs, this is the read…

Andrew Esber

England/Wales

Life After Cambridge

So you’ve just returned home from an amazing, once in a lifetime study abroad program; now what? The dust has settled from the craze of submitting exams, packing your belongings, and making it back across the ocean in one piece. The next few weeks can…

Janelle D'Avignon

England/Wales

What Cambridge Meant to Me

There have been two important realizations made from my time in Cambridge. First, this world is a lot bigger than what I knew, and a lot more beautiful. Now, I know that might sound silly or a bit obvious, but it’s not something many people are able to…

Janelle D'Avignon

New Zealand

Am I a Student or a Tourist?

Well this is it, Study Abroad. The experience that walks a balance beam between my education and the vacation of a lifetime. The overarching challenge of the adventure is finding a way to balance fun and responsibilities at the same time. It seemed like…

Andrew Esber

Ireland/Northern Ireland

Hiking in the Dublin Mountains

Of all the places I’ve been to in Ireland, I think my favorite place is Howth, which is a peninsula that has  tons of trails, all of which can be accessed by riding the DART train for 30 minutes from Dublin’s city center. The trails in Howth, nestled…

Matthew Elmore Merritt

England/Wales

How to Get into a Routine in Your Host Country

It can be hard adapting to a new place, especially if you’re headed to a city that is very different from where you live. Weekdays might provide you with a bit of a daily routine due to your classes or respective program, but outside of that you need…

Hannah Leibowitz

England/Wales

A Morning in Cambridge

Welcome to the University of  Cambridge! I’ll be studying here for their amazing six-week summer program at Pembroke College, taking Economics of Inequality and Discrimination, Political Economy of Natural Resource Management, and Reading Jane Austen…

Janelle D'Avignon

Ireland/Northern Ireland

Monasteries and Milk Cows on the Emerald Isle

I grew up on a cattle farm in the small town of 2,000 in Bridgeport, Alabama. Attending college in a city has been a much needed change of pace, but I often found myself missing the tranquility of home. The sights, sounds, and smells of farms are where…

Matthew Elmore Merritt

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