Amherst College Global Education Blog
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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Hola todxs. I hope everyone’s been enjoying their summer vacation and taking time to rest before the school year starts all over again. I’m currently wrapping up my semester here in Chile which has been a very bittersweet feeling. On the one hand, I’m ready to return to my family and friends, but on the other hand, I’m very sad
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Hi everyone, I hope that everyone is enjoying their summer. It has been a very long minute since I’ve uploaded a blog post; however, I’ve experienced many, not-so-great things in Chile this past month which have forced me to pause my study abroad experience, take care of my mental health and adapt once again to Chile. (I may dedicate my
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Hi! My name is Kendall Levine and I am a political science and Asian languages & civilizations double major finishing up my 3rd year. This fall I will be studying at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan on the language intensive track in hopes of returning with fluency in Japanese. I’m super excited to experience a culture different from the ones
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Hi everyone! My name is Sophie Goldsmith, and I am a biology and French double major from Atlanta, GA. This fall, I am studying abroad in Paris, France, with the Hamilton in France program at Hamilton College. As a French major, a big goal of mine is to improve my speaking fluency. I am excited that the Hamilton in France
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After my semester in Singapore ended, I packed up my belongings and traveled around Southeast Asia with my friends for a couple weeks. On my flight back to the US, I opened up the in-flight entertainment and found myself gravitating toward the movie Crazy Rich Asians, perhaps an attempt to savor the last bits of Southeast Asia. The first few
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Hello! As I find myself writing this, it is the very middle of the summer. Since I returned from Thailand, I have started a new internship in New Haven, a city that I have never lived in before. Thailand seems like worlds ago. When I reflect back to my time in Thailand, I think of so many wonderful experiences. Some
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Hi everyone! My name is Maddie, and I’m a first-semester junior from Oakland, California currently studying Spanish. This fall, I’m going to be studying abroad in Madrid, Spain (and then Ecuador in the spring)! While in Europe, I’ll be participating in the Middlebury Language Exchange Program and living with a host family. Hopefully, this will enable me to finally progress
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Although Amherst offers few courses on urban studies, I’ve always been fascinated by our urban environment and topics such as the social life of cities and the intersection between sustainability and urbanization. Singapore has proved to be the perfect setting for me to explore these topics. My urban studies course at Yale-NUS is unique for its breadth and comparative focus,
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Interviewee: Name: Bertrand Yan Hometown: Singapore Major: Environmental studies I interviewed my friend Bertrand, who lived in the same residential college as me during my time abroad at Yale-NUS. During the semester, we’ve had conversations regarding our different upbringings and how they have significantly shaped our identities and perspectives, so I felt that it would be very interesting to probe
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