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With only two weeks left, this blog serves as a reflection of the past four or so months and the impact that this experience has had on me. Sorry in advance for the length, but it’s worth it in my opinion. From the end of January to now I have spent…

Now that I have been back in the States for over a week, my time in Dublin is starting to feel more and more like a long, particularly memorable dream, or at the very least a parallel world filled with incredible amounts of green (such as the Hill of…

It was only natural that at the beginning of this study abroad experience, that I was expecting these 5 and a half months to feel like an eternity away from home. Now I’m sitting here, with what feels like borrowed time, in a place I now consider my second…

I currently have a little under three hours left of my flight to Brisbane, Australia and all of this still doesn’t seem real. Well, actually one thing does: how long this flight is! First, I flew from Cincinnati to LA and that was about 5 hours. Now,…

Here's the final result of my 1 Second Everyday video project! This semester was such a blessing in so many ways, so I'm glad I'll always have this video as a personalized souvenir to look back on it with!

A lot can change in a week. One week ago, I had just traveled back to Dublin from a trip to Amsterdam – the last major trip of my semester abroad. One week later and I am sitting at my dining room table back home in Massachusetts, still thinking about…

A common trend I have noticed with students who study abroad is the pressure and excitement of going on weekend trips to explore new surroundings. I am personally a huge advocate of them. Here in New Zealand, many people road-trip to the South Island…

 Hitting a Wall: A fitting J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings quote to title this post. Emotions have been present lately, and I have been trying to feel them more. My closest Kiwi friend helps me through this process. Just like before, this is not homesickness…

If you know me, you know how much I love a good view. Hiking has become a good outlet for me to both exercise and experience various beautiful views. Most recently, I attended an excursion with other students from the Arcadia Program, led by Alan Jansen…