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Category: Fall 2017 Bloggers

Bonnie in Taipei, Taiwan

September 1, 2017 Leave a comment
Bonnie Lin sitting in front of a gate

Bonnie loves to ask questions and learn about the world. During her two years at Amherst College, her greatest achievements are declaring a major in statistics and not yet setting any kitchens on fire. For the next two years, she plans on explaining to people why dental school will want a statistics major as she deals with the pressure of

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Sally in Budapest, Hungary

July 31, 2017 Leave a comment
Sally Yuen

    Hi! I’m Sally. I’m a senior at Amherst College. Last spring, I studied abroad at AIT, a computer science program in Budapest, Hungary. This semester, I’m fortunate enough to come back to this city as a student of BSM, a small mathematics program. With this blog, I hope to document my personal growth, as I know my identity

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Harith in Aix-en-Provence, France

July 31, 2017 Leave a comment
Portrait of Harith

  Salut tout le monde! I’m Harith, class of 2019, and I study Computer Science and Philosophy. Over the next few months, I will share my struggles navigating the lovely south of France with my broken French. I hope to take you along with me as I bike around Aix-en-Provence, relish French culture, and bore you with my 0.02€ about

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Molly in Cádiz, Spain

July 31, 2017 Leave a comment
Molly Pines

    ¡Hola a todos! My name is Molly Pines and I’m a rising junior from outside of San Francisco. At Amherst, my majors are English and Spanish, my extracurriculars are swimming, tour guiding, and Amherst Dance, and my interests include food, poetry, exercise, all types of music, and taking long walks. This Fall, I’m excited to be studying abroad in

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Always Try Everything Once

September 16, 2022 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

After much consideration, the most useful lesson I learned this summer was to “always try everything once”. Obviously, there are boundaries to this saying– there are a handful of things I absolutely recommend never trying. But, in terms of cultural immersion through history, friends, and food, it’s hard to go wrong. I strongly believe that giving everything a try lets

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Goals & Preparation to Study in Paris

August 31, 2022 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

Hi everyone! I’m Sophie, and I’m excited to share my experiences studying abroad with you as the semester progresses. I will be studying abroad in Paris with the Hamilton in France program, and taking classes with Hamilton and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. One aspect of the process that makes me nervous is that Paris schools don’t release their course offerings

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Why I Chose to Study Sustainability in Spain

August 29, 2022 wcarlo Leave a comment

¡Hello everyone!  ¡Bienvenido a Madrid!  My name is Maddie, and I am so excited to spend the next semester with you all, learning about Spain and some of the environmental issues that are present there.  However, before we dive into that, let me explain a little bit more about how I ended up here in the first place. Being a

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Reflecting on the Concept of “Home” while Studying in Different Countries

August 23, 2022 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

I think many of us can relate to wondering or being asked where we are from. I often go into a run-on sentence of self-instruction. It goes, “I was born in Korea but then adopted as a baby to the United States and so I grew up in New Jersey!”, and that tends to be the best-abbreviated version I can

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