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Category: Pre-Departure

Berlin, hey whats up hello?

The thought of spending the summer in Berlin invokes some pretty wild emotions within me. On one hand I’m super excited to learn what...
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First peek at Peking!

When I was younger, my mother prepared a homemade workbook of Chinese characters for me to learn and copy. In my attempts to avoid...
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See ya in Beijing

Hi! My name is Jessica and I am a rising junior studying Biology and Global Health, and I’m also on the premed track. I’m...
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Restless and Ready to Go

After months of applications, interviews, planning and a whole lot of waiting, today is finally the day. I’m currently sitting at Gate K19 of O’Hare...
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All Things Go

This is the story of a girl: who has never been out of the country before (although I was an hour from Canada once). who is...
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Leaving for Germany ~Tomorrow~

Hey there! My name is Kali, and I’m a junior theatre major, business minor from Chicago (the Lincoln Park neighborhood, in particular)! This is...
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Anxious Aloof American Abroad

I had always known since I arrived on Northwestern’s campus as a naive freshman with zero knowledge of anything, that my undergraduate career will...
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WOW: How I’m Cheating My Pre-Departure Blog Post

Thanks to some technical difficulties back in the States, I am currently writing you all from an internet cafe called WOW in downtown Stellenbosch....
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Today Is the Day!

Hi blog readers! My name is Emily Liquin, and I’m a junior at Northwestern. I’ve been preparing for months, but I can’t believe I’m...
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You May Say I’m A Dreamer

Samantha Trippy, HKUST Exchange, Fall 2014 But I’m not the only one. You’re reading this blog, aren’t you? Thinking about studying abroad? Well, I’ve...
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