Student Bloggers

“Life is full of leavings/with every leaving’s a receiving/it’s just a matter of believing/that more will come to meet your eyes”                       These words, penned by a dear friend and the most talented songwriter I know, have resonated with…

Hello all and welcome to my first blog post! My name is Alysa and I am currently a sophomore at The College of Wooster, studying communication studies, French, and elementary education. I will be studying at King’s College in London, leaving January 2nd…

Accents are always a part of language and I have encountered more accents than I could have possibly imagined over the term. Before coming here, I thought that all English people had the same accent. To be perfectly honest, I didn’t even know the difference…

I seem to be in a perpetual mindset of procrastination. I’m not sure if it was the extremely long summer or that I didn’t have anything due until week six of ten this semester. Schoolwork here tends to just be readings before the lecture or seminar. Busy…

Hey readers! It's been awhile, but I'm sure we're all on the same page about now: that is, everyone is in a frenzy as we prepare for finals. I've found myself in a sort of strange holiday mess, between tests and the festivity of the season. It's that…

When I opened my eyes this morning, I was struck by the familiarity of what I saw: my old ceiling, with its off-white, 1950s-style wooden beams; a large cabinet stuffed with DVDs and old photo albums; a painting of a kangaroo I made when I was 12, complete…

Every year a fresh batch of starry-eyed young scholars refine their resumes, perfect their personal statement prowess, and hurry to get an interview haircut as they apply to be thrown into that maelstrom of prestigious degrees and profound debt that is…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year here in London! Today we had a first snowfall - just flurries, but still very exciting. Something about the holidays here seems so magical to me. Because the UK hardly celebrates Halloween or Thanksgiving, Christmas…

I don’t take many trips outside of Rome for a few reasons: I like to get to know my host city, I can’t afford to take trips every weekend, and I enjoy the moments of rest and quiet between busy weeks. On the offhand that I do take a side trip, coming…