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In 24 hours I’ll be up in the air on my way to Spain. We fly into Madrid, where we’ll spend two nights before heading to Toledo for a day, and then finally to Granada. As I gear up for a long day of travel (a 2.5 hour flight to Atlanta, a 3 hour layover…

The greatest crime in the world is not to develop your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.” -Roger Williams By exactly 4:02 PM EST on Sunday January 6th, 2018, the car was packed and my family…

Two weeks ago, I left the sanctuary of my home on New Year’s Day to start my latest grand adventure of studying abroad for a semester in Aberdeen, Scotland. I left Texas, bright and early on a very cold Monday morning. My bags were packed to their fullest…

The beginning of my journey to Scotland was actually quite difficult and challenging. My fellow classmates and I all had a flight from Newark on January 9th but before that I had a flight from Buffalo to New Jersey the day before. I purposely planned…

It’s my fifth day in Dublin, but it feels like it has been much longer. At the same time, I’m still very much adjusting to life here. Maybe that’s because so much has been crammed into the past few days. From the hours of orientation at the Arcadia Dublin…

Two plane rides and three nights in a hotel later and I am finally moved in to my accommodation for the next five months. Tomorrow will begin the orientation for King’s College and in just a short week I will be preparing to begin classes. What a wild…

We’re in the middle of a winter storm here in the suburbs of Philadelphia, so I’m feeling more ready than ever to escape to sunny Spain. I’ve bought my plane ticket, received my student visa, and gotten my housing assignment, so I am officially all set…

In about three and a half hours (as of writing this sentence), I will load my luggage into my family’s car. We will drive for an hour through freezing, snowy Massachusetts from my home town of Chelmsford to Boston Logan International Airport. After some…

It’s January now, and I’ve been back in the States for a couple of weeks. My jetlag finally wore off, the holidays are over, and I’m getting ready to start my last semester on my home campus this week. My last few nights and last aperitivo in Rome were…