Amherst College Global Education Blog
I still vividly remember that train ride back to Salamanca from Madrid, where a casual conversation transformed into one of the most memorable moments during my time abroad. After a long weekend in Barcelona, I was exhausted and looking forward to a quiet train ride back to Salamanca until someone sat down beside me and started a conversation. He initially
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Located on Australia’s east coast, Sydney offers a range of coastal hikes with golden beaches, rugged cliffs, and breathtaking views. In this post, I will list some of my favorite routes! #1: Coogee to Bondi Distance: 4 miles (one way) Living on UNSW’s campus, I was just a 1.5-mile walk from Coogee Beach, providing easy access to the famous hike
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After months of preparing for my semester abroad, I finally arrived in Spain, and even until this moment, everything still felt quite surreal. It was not until I got to Salamanca and saw the endless sandstone walls and buildings that I realized my study abroad experience had officially begun. This beautiful city was where I was going to spend my
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Since mid-August, I’ve been navigating the bustling campus of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, on my study away Fall semester. In my first month here, the stark differences between Amherst and UNSW have become increasingly apparent. The small class sizes, familiar faces at Valentine Dining Hall, and the cozy corners of Frost Library at Amherst
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¡Hola desde España! Salamanca truly deserves to be called “La Ciudad Dorada,” or “The Golden City”: when the sun shines on the face of Salamanca’s sandstone buildings, the stone appears golden, a phenomenon that continues as the sun sets and the city’s lights illuminate the stone a lighter shade of gold into the darker hours of the night. As I’ve
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A bit about me and how I decided to study abroad in Sydney, Australia: Good morning from Sydney! By way of introduction, my name is Edred Opie. I’m a Junior at Amherst majoring in Math and Economics, and an international student from Chippenham, England. You will often see me carrying my tennis racquets around campus as a member of Amherst’s
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Hi everyone! My name’s Ed, and I’m a junior Math and Economics major from Chippenham, England. This semester, I am studying abroad in Sydney, Australia at the University of South Wales (UNSW Sydney). I will be taking four classes – two Math classes toward my major, and two others from a wide variety of classes to choose from. I can’t
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As a final post, I look back to my study abroad experience in Copenhagen and focus on aspects often overlooked when choosing your study abroad location: academics and housing. The bulk of this post consists of my photography (again), so feel free to just skim. But you might get some good insight as well by reading the margins! Academics As
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One of the central themes of my blog posts has been to locate Denmark in a broader, relative understanding of the world. Owing to the satire of this blog, Denmark is just as much a bubble as American liberal arts colleges are. Here I discuss how we can get out, literally. Because it is so easy to cross over national
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I chose to study abroad in Ghana for a variety of reasons, but I think I can finally admit that one of them was to take the road less traveled. We all know about the programs in Copenhagen and Kyoto, or the semesters in New Zealand and Spain. Yet one continent that is often overlooked for study abroad is Africa.
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