Calder Hollond 鈥21 earns an award for academic achievement abroad from the Forum on Education Abroad.
If you have already seriously considered studying abroad, you have probably imagined the possibility of a homestay with a local family.
When I was applying to colleges, I was confident that I wanted a small college experience. I didn't even consider colleges with more than a few thousand students, and I ended up at a school (that I love) of 1,600 students.
Once I decided to go to Madrid through Middlebury Schools in Spain, the next big, looming question was where on earth in Spain's beautiful capital I should live.
I often receive the question 鈥榳hy did you choose to go to South Africa to study abroad?鈥 I鈥檝e known I was going abroad in Cape Town on the Globalization, Environment, and Society program since early on in my freshman spring of college.
鈥淚n a few important ways, Morocco did not feel especially foreign to me. It is a Muslim country, and I am a Muslim. It is largely an Arabic-speaking country, and I speak enough Arabic to navigate comfortably.鈥