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Europe

Study Abroad in Bamberg, Germany by Erin Hauptmann

*(Previously written)* Servus (Southern Germany Hello)! My name is Erin Hauptmann, I am currently a College of Charleston Sophomore studying abroad in Bavaria, Germany at Otto Friedrich Universität Bamberg. I am majoring in both German and Supply Chain Management and minoring in Global Logistics and Transportation and German Studies. I started learning the language about 9 years ago as a way to reconnect with my heritage (Hauptmann is an extremely…

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Alumni Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight: Sophia Stoios ’21

Sophia Stoios is a senior honors student at the College majoring in Political Science and International Studies with a European Concentration and minoring in Economics. She studied abroad in Spring 2019 with our exchange program at the University of Tartu, in Estonia. After coming back from Tartu, Sophia joined the CIE team as one of our peer advisors for three semesters. She is currently interning with the non-profit, Ibu Foundation, that helps to…

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Europe

Leaving Groningen by Olivia Vyge

Groningen was a place I will cherish forever, and will be returning to visit as soon as life allows. A big hardship of leaving Groningen was knowing my friends and family would not be able to visit and experience the city like I was. As my father’s mother was born there, it was especially disappointing that he could not visit, and meet his cousins who lived there that I had…

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Europe

How to Escape a Pandemic by Wes Ford

When the school was first issuing recommendations to return home, I was dragging my feet, hoping that maybe the pandemic in Italy would stabilize and the government would get it under control, and maybe I could still spend my semester in Italy. However, as cases kept climbing, my family and I became more and more nervous, looking for our options depending on if I stayed in Italy or evacuated to…

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Europe

Online University in Corona-Time Pros and Cons by Mikaela Franco

Thanks to the corona virus pandemic, I have not had the experience of being on campus, attending lectures and seminars in person, or meeting my classmates. Everything has taken place online, meaning that communication is often slower and more difficult than it would have been otherwise. This can be quite frustrating at times. To be honest, I find it much harder to concentrate when I am not in front of…

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Europe

Finding the Good in the Bad by Wes Ford

Studying abroad during the pandemic has taught me a valuable lesson in how to see the good and remain optimistic in any situation, no matter how bad it is. I’m sure everyone is all too familiar with the feeling that nothing is going right and having to find something to look forward to, especially in the current situation, and I do not claim to be the only person going through…

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Europe

How to Survive a Pandemic in Germany by Mikaela Franco

When I wrote my introductory blog post I had no idea how deeply the coronavirus would impact my time abroad. Despite the recommendations from the College, I decided to accept the risk and board the plane for Stuttgart—I received the email in the airport literally minutes before boarding began, so it was really a spur-of-the-moment decision. And although there have certainly been some disappointments and difficult times along the way,…

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Asia

Culture Shock by Trinity Strauss

I have been in Japan for about 2 months now. When I first got here, everything seemed like a dream. New foods, new places, first time on a train, first time living away from home, making new friends, ect. I felt like I was adapting well to the new environment. This was until I got more settled in when I started to realize how different the environment was. The foods…

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Europe

Groningen by Olivia Vyge

Studying abroad in Groningen, the Netherlands was an experience I’ll cherish forever. I’ve had the intention of studying abroad before I was even in college, and Groningen stood out to me as the perfect fit for where I wanted to go. Groningen is a small town in the Netherlands, about two hours by train from Amsterdam, filled with more college students and foreigners than otherwise. Getting everything sorted for school,…

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