A college degree provides you with many advantages after you graduate.
A 蹤獲弝け education, however, not only opens up lots of opportunities once you leave, but while you are studying here as an undergraduate.
One of the most popular ways to take advantage of all 蹤獲弝け has to offer is to study abroad. As ironic as it sounds that the best way to make the most of your 蹤獲弝け experience is to leave our beautiful campus, spending a semester in a completely new environment is a chance that few want to miss.
Packing everything I need for three and a half months into two suitcases is a daunting task that Im not anxious to start, but I already know two items that are on top of my do not forget list (right below my copy of Lonely Planets Czech Phrasebook: With Two-Way Dictionary): my laptop and digital video camera.
As I spend the next semester taking courses and surrounding myself with Czech culture, I will reflect on my daily discoveries, occasional adventures, and inevitable mishaps on a blog titled .
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Because I am only one of about 200 蹤獲弝け students studying off-campus this semester, my story is not going to be the only one told on this blog.
Amanda Katz 09 (London), Kali McMillan 10 (London), Rebecca Plesser 10 (Australia), Laura Simocko 09 (West Indies), Alex Sklyar 10 (Japan), Tara Tendler 09 (Washington, D.C.), Chris Thompson 10 (Cairo), and Andrew Wickerham 10 (Manchester, U.K.) will be writing about their experiences and studies as well.
I will keep in contact with many other students off-campus and share what they have to say about adapting to different cultures, taking new courses, trying to master foreign languages, and travelling all over the world. Ill be using my Flip camera to post video clips to the blog, and I hope to create some shows that will appear on the universitys on www.mogulus.com.
As sad as I am that I wont be on campus to welcome the Class of 2012, go through Pan-Hellenic rush with my sorority and see the campus turn white during the first snowfall (OK, maybe Im exaggerating a bit there), I am so excited to step out of my comfort zone.
Be sure to check out the study abroad blog as we document what happens when 200 students leave Oak Drive and go global.