Study abroad in Marseille
For me, the thing I was most scared of was the people I was leaving behind and how those relationships would be affected...
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Posted on 02 March, 2020
Home country United States ◈
Host country France ◈
Education Business ◈
Program length 24 months
Study abroad in Graz
I think the principal challenge for me was to adapt to the city of Marseille. Coming from Graz, Austria, where my home u...
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Posted on 02 March, 2020
Home country Mexico ◈
Host country Austria ◈
Education Business ◈
Program length 4 months
Study abroad in Nizhny Novgorod
One of my biggest challenges in my personal life abroad was experiencing the living conditions in the student accommodat...
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Posted on 02 March, 2020
Home country Germany ◈
Host country Russian Federation ◈
Education International Relations ◈
Program length 12 months
Study abroad in Maastricht
It took me a lot of time to find a suitable accommodation at reasonable prices and that was a common issue for the major...
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Posted on 02 March, 2020
Home country Spain ◈
Host country Netherlands ◈
Education School of Business Economics ◈
Program length 6 months
Study abroad in London
It was a little hard to make non-American friends since we came in as a group and everyone wanted to hang out with each ...
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Posted on 02 March, 2020
Home country United States ◈
Host country United Kingdom ◈
Education Biology/Russian ◈
Program length 6 months
Study abroad in Marseille
Without doubt the hardest part of my year abroad was integrating into a French social group. Given that my main aim for ...
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Posted on 02 March, 2020
Home country United Kingdom ◈
Host country France ◈
Education Business ◈
Program length 12 months
Study abroad in St. Petersburg
The first and maybe the biggest challenge to overcome was living in the dorms. Not only they were located about 1,5 hour...
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Posted on 02 March, 2020
Home country Austria ◈
Host country Russian Federation ◈
Education GSOM ◈
Program length 5 months
Study abroad in Marseille
Finding an apartment in a foreign country seemed at first problematic, especially getting a good central location, witho...
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Posted on 02 March, 2020
Home country Poland ◈
Host country France ◈
Education Finance ◈
Program length 4 months
Study abroad in St. Petersburg
Living in a university setting made me accustomed to other people cooking my food and having food accessible at any time...
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Posted on 02 March, 2020
Home country United States ◈
Host country Russian Federation ◈
Education Languages ◈
Program length 2 months
Study abroad in St. Petersburg
I fell into the trap of self-denial and perfectionism in the process of focusing on getting good grades to an extreme ex...
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Posted on 02 March, 2020
Home country Hungary ◈
Host country Russian Federation ◈
Education Management ◈
Program length 12 months
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