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Summarizing Sustainability in Spain- by Maddie Hahm

June 1, 2023 wcarlo Leave a comment

It’s hard to recap everything I learned about Spain and its sustainability practices in a single blog post. Condensing an entire semester’s worth of knowledge and research is immensely difficult, and I never know what information is most pertinent to the topic at hand. Given this small disclosure, please note that what I talk about is only a small fraction

Reflections on a Semester Away: A Look into the Varied Experiences of Visiting Students

March 31, 2023 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

Beginning My Reflections Boy, what a semester it has been. As is always the case with me, time felt so slow– too slow– in the beginning, but looking back at it from the end, it went by extremely quickly. My semester in Japan has been full of surprises (both good and occasionally not-so-good) and so with this post, I will

Interview with a Student from Sorbonne Nouvelle

March 31, 2023 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

Hi everyone! For this blog, I spoke to my friend Narymane, a student at the French university Sorbonne Nouvelle, about her experiences and views on race and colonial relations in France. I was excited to talk to Narymane because most of what I learned in France about the political and social environment was from my professors, who were all GenXers.

Tips and Tricks and Learning New Things in Madrid

March 14, 2023 wcarlo Leave a comment

¡Hola a todes! ¡Bienvenido a vuelta a mi blog de sustanabilidad (translation: welcome back to my sustainability blog). I’ve now been in Spain for approximately 24 hours, and, my goodness, has it been a wild ride! I can’t remember the last time when I felt more overwhelmed—and I once moved across the country to live in a new city by

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