Study Abroad Stories

Meet Mel Andrade (they/them)

Program and Location: Fall, University of Wollongong; Wollongong, Australia Major/Minor: Criminology Major, Spanish Minor Why did you choose to study abroad? I chose to study abroad because I was motivated…

Meet Grady Fort (he/him)

Program and Location: Fall, Wildlife Aerial Observatory; Naankuse, Namibia Major/Minor: Mechanical Engineering Major Why did you choose to study abroad? I wanted to study abroad in Namibia to see the…

Meet Taylor Blount (she/her)

Program and Location: Summer, Summer Start in Prague; Prague, Czech Republic Major/Minor: Business administration major with a concentration in business analytics Why did you choose to study abroad? I chose…

Meet Amanda Bell (she/her)

Program and Location: Summer, Hanyang International Summer School; Seoul, Korea Major/Minor: Communication Media Major, and Music Studies Minor Why did you choose to study abroad? I grew up in the…

Meet Manisha Kar (she/her)

Program and Location: Summer, Italy: History and Italian studies in Florence with the Honors Program; Florence, Italy Major/Minor: Environmental Sciences Major, and Environmental Toxicology Minor Why did you choose to…

Meet Kayla Pham (she/her)

Program and Location: Fall, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT); Melbourne, Australia Major/Minor: Media Arts, Design, and Technology Major Why did you choose to study abroad? I chose to study…

Meet Giuliana Baucom (she/her)

Program and Location: Summer, Bahamas: Ecology, Evolution, and Human Dimensions of Conservation Biology; Staniard Creek, Andros Islands, The Bahamas Major/Minor: Fisheries and Wildlife Major Why did you choose to study…

Meet Molly Sue Smith (she/her)

Program and Location: Spring, University College Cork; Cork, Ireland Major/Minor: B. Social Work, B.S. Applied Education Studies, Entomology Minor Why did you choose to study abroad? I chose to study…

Meet Jacob Owen Lockton Balagot (he/him)

Program and Location: Summer, American Councils Russian Immersion and Area Studies Program; Tallinn, Estonia Major/Minor: History Major, and Russian Studies Minor Why did you choose to study abroad? I choose…

Meet Bennett Kimball (he/him)

Program and Location: Academic Year 2022-23, University College Cork; Cork, Ireland Major/Minor: Biological Engineering Major with Ecological and Environmental concentrations, Biological Sciences Minor Why did you choose to study abroad?…

Meet Vedish Thimma (he/him)

Program and Location: Spring, Hanyang University; Seoul, South Korea Major/Minor: Mechanical Engineering Major Why did you choose to study abroad? I remember one of the first things I decided on…

Meet Adachi Amaram (she/her)

Program and Location: Spring, American University in Cairo; Cairo, Egypt Major/Minor: Political Science Major, History Minor Why did you choose to study abroad? Growing up in an immigrant family, I’ve…