A Ticket to Full Cultural Immersion by Isabelle Picciotti

You went to the Visa office, spent an hour (or more) waiting for your interview, and a couple weeks later received a big sticker in your passport that you thought was only useful for all those weekend trips you had planned for the semester. Wrong! Your visa is so much more than a way to…

Falling for Paris, by Victoria Sankey

  Paris is truly the city of love, and I’ve never fallen harder. Romance is all over this beautiful city, you just have to look at someone’s expression and you can see it. I’m not talking about the man looking lovingly as his new wife as I took their picture a top Le Tour Eiffel. I’m…

Study abroad: not just for studying, by Katie McCall

Though an important part of studying abroad is the classes you take and the things you learn in the classroom, much of the learning done while abroad is through experiences and travel. Living here in the South of France has given me incredible experiences to travel around whether it is just for a day or…

Are you sure you still want to go? by Katie McCall

Most of those who know me have known for a while now that I will be studying abroad in France during the spring semester of 2016. So when the November 13th Paris attacks happened, there was unsurprisingly a lot of fear and questioning from my friends and family. As I packed up to leave Austin for…