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Blog : Topic: ISEP Voices
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blog Studying Abroad in Botswana I’m spending this semester at the University of Botswana. Two and a half weeks into the semester, students went on strike. They destroyed cafeterias and a zebra statue. They looted the bookstore. Police were called two days in a row and showed up in their riot gear ready to put an end to the protest
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blog How My Exchange Program Helped Me Decide to Go to Graduate School Last spring, I spent a semester abroad at Virginia Tech – a school I once thought only child prodigies could get into. Coming from an international university in the Arab world, I never really knew how my educational background or level of intelligence would compare to that of students...
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blog Looking Up On My Excursion To Lapland They say that when you're walking through life, you should remember to look up every once in a while. They also say that when you're climbing, you shouldn't look down. To accommodate a little bit of both, I chose to keep my head low but my eyes on the prize: the top.
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blog You Learn Something New Every Day After 20 some odd hours on a plane, I had finally arrived in Sydney, Australia — my new home for the next six months. Overwhelming, but I wasn’t having a mental breakdown, so I was off to a good start.
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blog 6 Things to Keep in Mind When Moving to the Other Side of the World Jet lag is a real thing and there is no easy way to overcome it The world is full of tips and tricks to help you kick it to the curb, but don’t bank on being able to skip that part of traveling, because it probably won’t work.
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blog Realistic Expectations One Month In To Studying Abroad I’m one month into study abroad and to be honest — this has been the hardest month of my life. Frankly, it's been a roller coaster. The ups, the downs, the speed, everything feels so out of control and it’s not a great feeling.
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blog 3 Things Nobody Tells You About Studying in France I had expectations about the time I would spend studying abroad in France for over ten years: ten years of dreaming, planning and working to achieve my goals. I knew where I wanted to go and what I wanted to study; I read books, blog posts and packing lists - anything I could get my hands on.
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blog Studying in Ghana: The Best Decision I've Ever Made A common question I was asked prior to departure for Ghana was, "Why Ghana?" Now I can say the reasons I provided originally served as only a partial explanation of why Ghana was my ideal country of choice for my study abroad program.
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