Posts categorized Study Abroad

Fun Fact #1: The University of Rochester is about an hour and a half away from the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. Fun Fact #2: The University of Rochester had no school…

Written by Jessica Hardin, Instructor, Samoa Immersion Summer Seminar   Samoa is recovering from cyclone Evan, or as we call it here, a hurricane. Although this has caused many hardships…

Greetings from Paris, France! In celebrating “Thanksgiving,” the French have put up Christmas lights and decors on most of the streets. Reasonably so, Thanksgiving is not a French tradition, and…

It's been almost two months into the fall semester and things have gotten quite interesting in France, where I am doing a semester abroad with the IES Business and International…

Seeing as it's mid-October, I will fully admit that it took me an embarrassingly long time to jump back on the blogging horse once I got to school this fall.…

Hey, everybody! My name is Pedro Pablo Vallejo Ramirez, I am an international freshman here at the University of Rochester. I was born in Bogota, Colombia, but when I was…

Hi, everyone! My name is Heather Alico and I am a senior, brain and cognitive science (BCS) major. My focus in BCS is on neurodevelopment and language. I hope to…

Hello there, Welcome to what promises to be an eventful semester. It is great to experience a little bit of a campus whose liveliness stems from the activities of its…

Today’s guest blogger for our “New Major Blog Series” is Oladoyin Oladeru ’13. Ola writes about discovering a passion for epidemiology and understanding the worlds need for strong public health…

I've been home in the US for just over a week now and it's been strange, to say the least! At first it was pleasantly overwhelming to see my family…