Studying Abroad

The McCarters believe that this increased compatibility has added to the potential success of this new incarnation of CLC, so students will finally have the chance to study language with far more benefits than they could find in the classroom. Studying in a conversational setting can help students learn contemporary expressions in a language. Kate encourages students to study language in this way to for the practical fluency desired by employers. “Put it on your resume. Distinguish yourself,”…

The film, 7 Boxes was based in Paraguay. In a couple of months, I will be studying abroad in Costa Rica. During this film, I was sitting by another Castleton University student who has studied abroad in Costa Rica. At the end of the film, he told me the similarities between Costa Rica and Paraguay. He said how the streets of Paraguay and the streets of Costa Rica are very similar. These…

overcoming obstacles in order to reach them. For instance, in order to achieve my dreams, I have future goals within the following categories: career, travel, spiritual, health and wellness, relationship and financial life. As of right now, I am studying Communications at Camden County College to become a future journalist. The goals I set for my career is to become a correspondent for major companies like…

priceless. Parents always strive to make their children live better before they come in this world and they still do so until the last breath. An influential story of one of the Overseas Filipino workers; Crisanta Sampang, regretted her decision to go abroad and left her children to raise them the way she wanted to. After fifteen years she reunited with her daughters. Yet, it was to late for her daughters. Do Crisanta’s childhood experiences affected her decisions in adulthood? Most…

different kind of foods, some of them were not good but it was worth to try. I got to fall in love and become more mature. I got so much more independency, I got to know myself better and got to know my limits as well. Due to my decision of living abroad, I started an youtube channel where I could make daily reports of my Au Pair life and share with my family and friends. At that time, youtube was not something so popular as it is today. But more and more poeple started to watch me and…

First, I want to examine the debate on regulating local currencies in late imperial China. Studying this intellectual debate can explain why the Qing government did not regulate local currencies. Second, I will review the decision making process of currency reform. The way the KMT thought about the local interests was critical to the central-provincial…

Prompt: We would like to know more about your interest in NYU. We are particularly interested in knowing what motivated you to apply to NYU and more specifically, why you have applied or expressed interest in a particular campus, school, college, program, and/or area of study? If you have applied to more than one, please tell us why you are interested in each of the campuses, schools, colleges, or programs to which you have applied. You may be focused or undecided, or simply open to the options…

All students studying at the University of Victoria (UVic) want to achieve success. Chinese international students are no exception to this rule. For Chinese international students to have overall success they need to be proficient in three inter-related areas of academics, culture and social. First, challenges interfering with academic achievement include Chinese international students lacking English language proficiency, lacking academic skills and______. In regards to culture, there are…

“I know applying to colleges is the last thing you want to do right now, but you might change your mind,” a trusted friend told me. It was December of my senior year of high school, and college application deadlines were approaching quickly. I was recovering from a major illness at the time, and wasn’t ready to think about college. My plan was to spend a year living at home and working before I pursued higher education. In the following months, my recovery progressed rapidly. As my friend…

The mosaic, complex and sophisticated structure of the Homo Sapiens body is a unique beauty. However, when witnessing my mother degenerating due to leukaemia, it showed that complexity inevitably meant that problems arise. I became aware of the effects such illness can have on the patient suffering and their families who will be suffering twice as much and appreciate how satisfying being a doctor would be in such difficult circumstances. Having experienced first-hand how varied a doctor’s job…