Study Abroad Blog

By Kate K.

Published Dec. 4, 2025

One of the things that I think is important to do in the city that you live in for study abroad is to experience things within your city. The worst thing that I can think of to happen is to live in a city for a semester and feel like you have experienced more in…

By Kate K.

Published Nov. 20, 2025

One of the major things to do while in Germany, especially in the Black Forest, is to go hiking. Freiburg is a little different from how other cities are, when developing new areas nature is taken into consideration. https://flic.kr/p/2rGzc8f Map of Freiburg (source: wiki commons) Which is evident when looking at a map of Freiburg…

By Devin D.

Published Nov. 17, 2025

As a political communication student, I was very excited to get to travel to Italy to learn new things. What I wasn't expecting was how quickly I was going to see change. As soon as we landed, we were waiting for our train to take us from the airport to Rome. Around the same time…

By Kate K.

Published Nov. 14, 2025

I am currently studying abroad in Freiburg, Germany, and one of the first things that I have found in my time being here difficult to navigate is the grocery store. Sure, most things in the grocery store are how you would expect to find it — soup in the soup aisle, apples in the produce…

By Ginger G.

Published Nov. 12, 2025

Now that midterms are over, I’m going to take some time to reflect on academics in my post. Besides my Korean class, most of my classmates are Korean students and the classes aren’t designed specifically for exchange students (though they are taught in English). This, combined with cultural differences, has challenged me this semester. My…

By Tom W.

Published Nov. 10, 2025

As I wrap up my second month at Heriot-Watt University, I’ve started to feel truly comfortable with the lifestyle that studying abroad encourages. Over the past month, I visited London, several cities in Norway, Amsterdam, Fort William, Glasgow and Stirling. https://flic.kr/p/2rE5StJ Stirling Castle It was disorienting at first to spend so much time in different…

By Nolan F.

Published Nov. 5, 2025

During October I got the chance to reunite with my friends from Mizzou! Last fall semester at Mizzou, I became friends with many Korean exchange students. We spent a lot of time hanging out together, and they are part of the reason I decided to study abroad in Korea. When their exchange program at Mizzou…

By Julianna M.

Published Oct. 30, 2025

While it has only been a month, my time abroad has already taught me so much. I’ve had the opportunity to grow both professionally and personally through my internship at Euronews and my academic courses focused on European politics and society. At Euronews, I’ve worked on a range of video projects, from quick-turnaround pieces on…

By Carly G.

Published Oct. 16, 2025

In October, one of the girls in my program, Bekah, and I decided to travel to Chile. Living in Buenos Aires is incredibly fast-paced, and after a few weekends in the big city, we needed to try something new. Thus, we booked a flight to Chile, spending a weekend in the environment surrounding Santiago and…

By Amani P.

Published Oct. 16, 2025

I am currently studying in Florence, Italy for the 12-week program that is offered. My program started with a travel week that was 8 days long and consisted of early days and late nights, traveling around the country and seeing a large range of what it has to offer. This is the first time I…