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From religion and reformation to chocolate and cheese, Geneva is a city rich in history and high on taste!

It goes without saying that studying abroad, while an amazing experience, is an opportunity that is often unattainable for many students. This holds especially true for an underrepresented group of young people that includes ethnic minorities, community college students, those with low income as well as those with disabilities.
So how exactly is this void supposed [...]

I’m a nomad. I haven’t stayed in one apartment for more than eight months since I moved out of my parents’ house, and that was twelve years ago. Four-to-six months is my average length of stay. The residence on my driver’s license is three years out of date and being asked for my permanent address [...]

I like to get out in the country when I travel abroad. It’s hard not to fall in love with Europe’s cool urbanity, but that doesn’t mean you should forget about seeing its natural beauty, too. Europe is a continent of snow-capped mountains, Alpine pastures, glaciers, rivers, rolling hills, and secluded beaches. Whatever kind of [...]

I’ve arrived back in Cagliari after my trip to Groningen and Florence, and I have to say it’s nice to come home. It’s also funny to realize that I think of Cagliari as home. I guess almost any apartment would feel like home after youth hostels and couch surfing, but I’m also enjoying how nice [...]

We’ve all run into that kind of tourist. The one who’s so intent on doing the city that they spend more time looking at their guidebook than the monuments, the ones who can only admire a beautiful view from from behind a camera lens. Done-it-all tourists are a pain once they get back home. You’re [...]

Jessica Sprenkel, a current senior at Rhodes College in Memphis, spent last semester studying abroad at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. She found her study abroad program through IES Abroad, a non-profit acadmeic consortium that provides study abroad opportunities to more than 200 colleges and universities in the US.
Jessica is now only days away from [...]

Finding Internet abroad isn’t as much of a problem as it used to be. Airports are usually equipped with WiFi (though you generally have to pay for it), youth hostels and budget hotels advertise their Internet hook-ups to attract backpackers, and even small cities have Internet cafes. The train I took from Groningen to Amsterdam [...]

The University of Groningen was recently voted the most international student-friendly university in the Netherlands. Start browsing their web site, almost all of which is available in English, and you’ll see why. Groningen makes a real effort to make the university accessible to non-Dutch students. It offers a variety of classes in English, so you [...]

My arrival in Sardinia this trip was the fitting conclusion to an inauspicious voyage that began with overweight luggage fees, a juice-less iPod, and forgotten earplugs. My big bag was lost between New York and Rome, and my carry-on, which Meridiana forced me to check because it was slightly over the 9 kilo weight limit for [...]