Cats and ’Cats Abroad
Posted May 2, 2019
Andrea Biancalana, Study Abroad ’17, Northwestern ’19 Biological Sciences, Spanish When I first began choosing a study abroad program, I was entirely focused on...Category: Programs
SOWETO Township Tour
Posted April 9, 2019
The last week in South Africa, my family and I visited a township in Johannesburg called SOWETO. The name represents the location: South Western...
Multiculturalism
Posted March 26, 2019
I’m taking an intercultural theater course, and, because of the subject, we end up talking a lot about culture. One of my classmates was...
Home Away from Home
Posted March 18, 2019
Most of the time while I’m here in South Africa, I notice the differences in culture, weather, people, etc. However, at Stellenbosch University, it...
Museums and Stories We Tell Ourselves
Posted March 5, 2019
I like museums. I like looking at how curators display artefacts or art or whatever they are working with, and how they create stories...
NUS Exams
Posted March 4, 2019
Singaporean higher education and NUS could not be more different than Northwestern. First, there is little to no assignments on a weekly basis. At...
The Arts in Singapore
Posted March 4, 2019
My main motivations for choosing to study at NUS and live in Singapore were to experience a new culture, learn a new language, and...
Two is Better Than One
Posted March 1, 2019
I began my second semester of study abroad at University of Edinburgh after flying over from Sydney, where I took classes in the six...
Observation of Orthopedic Surgery
Posted March 1, 2019
Today, one of my classmates and I had the incredible opportunity to observe two orthopedic surgeries at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town. The first...
A Wildcat in the Wild
Posted February 14, 2019
Kruger was like nothing I had ever seen before; the entire experience felt like a dream. All the scenery in the world going on...