The Eiffel Tower, Champs-Élysées, and Chicken McNuggets?
Posted May 8, 2020
Rachael Goldberg, Study Abroad ’19, Northwestern ’20 Economics, French Leading up to my study abroad experience in Paris, I constantly daydreamed about what it...Category: Sciences Po
Back Again
Posted March 5, 2018
There were many times in Paris where I actually felt desperate to go home. I missed my friends and iced coffees and the feeling...
An Afterword
Posted February 14, 2018
So, it’s been a while since I’ve been back home. After weeks of waiting, some serious trouble accessing cash, and about 7 flights across...
Wrapping it up
Posted December 27, 2017
Though it’s probably just cause I spent the better part of my my last couple weeks traveling, to the point where sleeping in hostels...
Mundanity in the study abroad experience
Posted December 23, 2017
Everyday when I step outside the apartment, it’s hard not to feel like I’m on some extended, ridiculously long vacation rather than somewhere I’m...
Beginning of the End
Posted December 12, 2017
T minus 5 days until I leave Paris. I reflect back to my first memories of this semester and it seems like years ago....
Paris Paris Paris
Posted December 2, 2017
So, I live in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, on my own in a small former maid’s room (dit chambre de bonne en français)....
Liberté, Inégalité, Fraternité
Posted December 1, 2017
Hi. I’m in France. Did you know France has a different society than the United States? Wow. Surprising, right? Sarcasm aside, I’ve recently been...
Becoming francophone
Posted November 29, 2017
I have a lot of respect for those who go to countries where they don’t speak the language at all. I took French all...
Affirmative Action, dit “Discrimination Positive”
Posted November 25, 2017
“What do you consider yourself?” “Probably a liberal.” “Oh well, you know we say that the American left is about the same as...