Ok, so here’s what I did: Every study abroad company compiles annual lists of the most popular study abroad destinations based on data from students that studied abroad with them. I looked at all the lists and simply combined them into one, super list, which you can find below. The beauty of it is that […]
“I’ve never had a student come back saying they regret studying abroad, but I have met with multiple students saying that they regret not studying abroad.” – Corinne Kenny Currently a graduate assistant at UW – Lacrosse, Corinne studied abroad in Granada, Spain; one of the many hidden, beautiful cities in Europe that you’ve never […]
“If you don’t see it for yourself, it doesn’t really happen.” – Mason Nagima In this dual interview Mason Najima and Brittney Rosiles tells us about their trips to Spain and India, respectively. They did it through an organization called USAC, which stands for University Studies Abroad Consortium. They had an amazing time and their interview reflects […]
It was literally me. I saw it, and freaked out, and said ‘there’s no way I’m passing this up’” — Maria Gutowski Before we started the interview I asked Maria what her major was. Then when we started the interview she told me what study abroad program she chose…you can hear my reaction and then Maria is […]
“Once you graduate you won’t get this opportunity ever again” — Ryan Roberts Ryan Roberts (@ryanrobster) is a business major at Aurora University which is a 5,800 student private, non profit university just outside of Chicago. Ryan interned for a social media startup in Barcelona for eight weeks and in this interview he not only tells us […]
“I explain to students that this is an investment in your future – you are having to navigate all these different things which is going to build confidence, flexibility, adaptability, and networking” — Andria Morse Andria Morse was so much fun to talk to and learn from in this interview. She currently serves as the Interim Assistant Director […]
“Just keep learning and enhance your curiousity for the world around you” — Karime Diaz There is a fallacy out there that you can’t study abroad if you’re a student athlete. Karime Diaz, once a member of the Kean University Women’s Lacrosse team didn’t buy into this notion and talks about how she set up an […]
“What I hear from everybody is ‘you’ll never regret going longer’” — Hannah Lutz Hannah Lutz is the first student I’ve interviewed that studied abroad in Prague. She is also the first student that used CIEE, which is a great, non profit, 3rd party program to help you get to where you want to go. Her classes […]
“I challenge you to think of a way that in 10 years you will look back and think studying abroad was a bad decision.” — David Carlton David Carlton got three credits in one month. How did he do that? He studied abroad and took advantage of the plethora of options available to students at […]
“We didn’t have a clue what we were doing. We had no idea where we were going, and it was totally fine” — Jason Kouba One of the biggest reason people study abroad is to immerse themselves in a country in order to learn a language, and I haven’t had anyone on the show go for […]