Archive | Travel
-
Witnessing a revolution while studying abroad
Surrounded by a mass of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, George Washington U. first-year graduate student Cory Ellis gripped his camera as water cannons doused thousands of Egyptians on the first day of political protests last Tuesday.
News | Other | Politics | Travel Read more... -
Brown U. students evacuate Egypt
Two Brown U. students studying abroad in Alexandria, Egypt through a Middlebury College program are being evacuated today from the country by plane in light of the ongoing violent protests against President Hosni Mubarak's regime.
News | Other | Travel Read more... -
Federal ban lifted, schools hope to open study abroad in Cuba
U. Iowa students and others across the country could soon have the chance to study abroad in once off-limits Cuba because of recent federal policy changes. President Obama’s administration lifted restrictions on study abroad programs to Cuba on Jan.
News | Other | Travel Read more... -
First Lady urges study in China
First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged college students to take advantage of opportunities to study abroad in China during a speech in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
News | Other | Travel Read more... -
Column: Studying abroad is no vacation
According to the Institute of International Education, just more than 260,000 U.S. students studied abroad in the 2008-2009 academic year. That’s all of North America.
Columns | Opinion | Other | Travel Read more... -
Column: Cultural immersion key to fluency when learning a new language
Think back over how many different subjects you’ve taken classes in. Do you really know anything about most of those topics? I’d never claim to be an expert in math, core humanities or biology, despite having taken college courses for all of them. But our specializations are different, right?
-
Column: Finding adjustment in Mexico
Upon living in Mérida just over a week, my Spanish has improved tenfold. I find myself saying, "Lo siento, no entiendo…" (I'm sorry, I don't understand) about half as often as I was mere days ago.
-
Column: Life at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam
On my first night in Amsterdam, my roommate told me he and a group of other American students had searched for one of Amsterdam's legendary "coffee shops" - establishments which sell marijuana, which is decriminalized in the Netherlands, although still technically illegal.
-
Column: To the Twilight Zone and back
I’ve met enough people who have studied abroad to know, offhand, a shortlist of the most common return symptoms: depression, anxiety, newfound fervor for social justice, scary addiction to British designer drugs. I came back from Spain three weeks ago with none of these.
Columns | Opinion | Other | Travel Read more...