by Juan C | Aug 12, 2016 | Asia, Commerce & Business, Faculty-Led, Summer
As I begin to pack for my trip across the globe, I can’t help but feel both excitement and a slight sense of apprehension. I know that great adventures await me in India, a country that in my mind is as unique as it is distant. Its culture and customs are highly...
by Lauren M | Aug 10, 2016 | Engineering, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
I woke up this past Wednesday morning in my own bed in Houston, Texas, vaguely aware of some bizarre dream I had where I had spent an entire 6 weeks in Europe traveling and taking a class. Then, after about 10 seconds it hit me that it wasn’t a dream, that I had...
by Mary P | Aug 10, 2016 | Arts & Sciences, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
Berlin is a city of immense diversity and many different cultural influences. I am grateful to have experienced all of them during my stay. Finishing my class at the Humboldt University made me feel both proud and sad. I learned a lot from the class, and it was...
by Jacob | Aug 10, 2016 | Engineering, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
Despite the intensive lab course we were taking in Denmark, my friend and I were able to take a weekend trip to Brussels, Belgium, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. We flew to Brussels on Friday morning and immediately started sightseeing since we were only going to be...
by Madison K | Aug 5, 2016 | Arts & Sciences, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
Before I left for Ireland, people warned me (incessantly) about the strange type of sadness that permeates Life-After-Travel, and I laughed these off, chalked it up as a silly theory for overly sensitive people (of which group I don’t count myself a part). But...
by Jacob | Aug 5, 2016 | Engineering, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
I have been studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the past month with 26 other UA students. We are participating in the chemical engineering Unit Operations Lab at the Technical University of Denmark. While this has been an extreme amount of work, I’ve...
by Madison M | Aug 5, 2016 | Commerce & Business, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
Returning home from study abroad may be one of the saddest things I have done. After only two weeks, I had no desire to come home and definitely would have been content to spend the rest of my summer overseas. This program was by far the greatest experience of my...
by Madison M | Aug 4, 2016 | Commerce & Business, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
One week down, one week to go. Warsaw was more amazing than I could have imagined. Going into the program, I was excited to see Warsaw, but it was never a place that I had planned to travel to. Warsaw blew me away with its wonderful people, architecture, and culture....
by Emily S | Aug 4, 2016 | Arts & Sciences, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
One day removed from the journey back home from my study abroad trip, I’m still a bit jet lagged, but overall I haven’t experienced any extreme reverse culture shock. I was expecting to feel uneasy once home, maybe missing the bustle of Berlin or the...
by Madeline P | Aug 4, 2016 | Arts & Sciences, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
In my opinion, we live and study at one of the prettiest colleges in England. Worcester College and the city of Oxford have really begun to feel like a home away from home. The classes that my peers and I attend really integrate exploring Oxford, and we are encouraged...
by Lauren M | Aug 4, 2016 | Engineering, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
It’s been thirty days since my class started of which 42 hours of were physically being in a lab, and at least 100 spent in the student databar writing 7 lab reports. Was it stressful? Yes. Worth every minute? Absolutely. My time in Copenhagen has swiftly come...
by Ariana F | Aug 3, 2016 | Comm & Info Sciences, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
Now that I’m back home I can take a huge sigh of relief. Although I will miss Paris extremely, I was missing being home even much more. Paris, at the time, was having a lot of issues with their labor laws and a protest was occurring every other day to the point...
by Devin V | Aug 3, 2016 | Engineering, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
While in Denmark several things became apparent, the people are trustworthy but the weather is not. Most of the people I came into contact with on a daily basis seemed fairly reserved but happy to help me if I had any questions, such as directions or translations. It...
by Madison K | Aug 3, 2016 | Arts & Sciences, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
When I was considering studying abroad with the university, I looked at the different programs that were offered more than I looked at the locations of those programs specifically. So, when I chose to go to Ireland with the English program, I knew little to nothing...
by Samantha S | Aug 3, 2016 | Arts & Sciences, Education, Faculty-Led, Summer
My time here in Stockholm has been life changing! Unfortunately, this trip is coming to an end soon and I could not be more sad. As I sit here and reflect on my time I have realized many things. I guess I should start from the beginning though! First impressions. As I...
by John E | Aug 3, 2016 | Arts & Sciences, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
After arriving in Dublin after nearly twenty-four hours of being awake, my situational awareness was not at full capacity. But the first strange thing I remember noticing was riding the bus from the airport to the city on the left side of the road. A crash felt...
by Allison H | Aug 3, 2016 | Arts & Sciences, Europe, Summer, UA-Affiliate
Another great perk of studying abroad is being able to experience different seasons in different places. For example: experiencing summer in Europe. Summers in Europe can provide quite the culture shock for Americans from the south. The weather can vacillate between...
by Cassie C | Aug 3, 2016 | Engineering, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
This is probably the hardest post to write..not because I don’t have anything to write about, or because I’m bored, but to begin to describe all of the experiences I have had is unfathomable (along with taking a momentary step back from these incredible experiences to...
by Erin B | Jul 28, 2016 | Arts & Sciences, Asia, Faculty-Led, Summer
I am in the throngs of my China trip and, miraculously, nothing terrible has happened. No earthquakes, no kidnappings, no allergic reaction, I began to feel like I was on top of the world! The fact that I stared my anxiety down in the face and came on this trip was...
by Savannah W | Jul 28, 2016 | Commerce & Business, Europe, Faculty-Led, Summer
This was it. This was the part of the trip I had been anticipating for months! I was finally going back to Germany. I hadn’t been there in almost 1o years, and here I was getting to go to Berlin and Munich! On May 19th, we packed our bags and headed to the...
