Tagged Study Abroad

Adjusting to life in a new city, or any city for that matter, can always be a challenge. Because I grew up in a small town and go to Fairfield, I have never had the opportunity to live in a city before coming...

Welcome to the Study (Abroad) Guide, an amateur handbook for all things study abroad from traveling to food and nightlife. For the next 15 weeks, I will be studying and living at Regent’s University in...

It’s hard to believe that my journey is almost over. It has been more than three months since I first arrived in Florence. At first, adjusting was hard both socially and emotionally; there were many times...

Throughout the semester, everyone had his or her families visiting them. Most of my roommates had one or both parents stay for a week in Florence and spent time with them in Venice or Rome for the weekend....

The time difference between the U.S. and Italy is a challenge, especially when I’m so used to calling my best friends from home mid-morning after a weekend to catch up. I often forget that mid-morning for me...

Anyone who knows me well knows that I am the worst at budgeting money.  For those of you who have this same problem, I highly recommend studying abroad. It wasn’t until I went abroad that I learned how to...

Free time is definitely a privilege. It is very much desired by college students everywhere, especially during the week. When I came abroad, I expected to have the same amount of work that I would at...

For those of us that are abroad, we are missing out on one of the best weekends at Fairfield Beach that Stag nation is preparing for: Oktoberfest. But I, who have spent the last month in Florence, was lucky...

It’s hard to believe that four weeks ago, we all arrived at our study abroad destinations. The time seems to be going by really fast. The honeymoon stage is coming to an end as class work is piling up and...

I was never a fan of my language classes at Fairfield. There were multiple occasions during class when I asked myself “When will this ever be useful?” Since I’ve been in Florence, I’ve come to realize...