Student Bloggers

This past week has been rather great. I’ve made a solid group of friends here from my Arcadia group, and we’ve been able to go a lot of places around town together. Mostly its been trips to the movies, visiting each other’s flats and having movie nights…

It won’t take anyone very long to figure out that I am restless. From May 2016 to August 2017 I will have moved residency nine times. I admit, I miss my loved ones (horse especially) and it hasn’t been easy. But hey, might as well get an adventure out…

One suitcase, one carry-on, and one backpack. They say it can't be done. But I'm here to tell you that five pants, two coats, one rain jacket, four sweaters, one cardigan, eleven button-up shirts, eight tall socks, ten no-show socks, twelve pairs of…

My semester at the University of Edinburgh begins in one week. I’m beyond excited -- I have always wanted to visit Scotland, and after some travels in the UK over the Christmas period, it is nearly time to venture past that Northern Border. I have described…

It seems like we spend the majority of our lives waiting. We wait in long lines, wait all year to celebrate the holidays, wait to break out of high school, and wait for the boring summers at home to pass so we can return to college. There are so many…

So it's currently 5:30pm on New Year's Eve and I just zipped my suitcase and finished packing (note: not recommended). My plane leaves from LAX tomorrow morning. I remember last January thinking how much time I had to get everything in order. Then suddenly…

Spending my last two weeks in Minnesota has been odd! I won’t miss scraping ice off car windshields, but I will miss my family, and my closet. I’ve been struggling with how to pack for studying abroad, and getting through the “What Ifs” of needing that…

Well, I did it. Four months, a few plane rides, and somewhere close to 200 shots of espresso (I did the math) later, I’m sitting in my parents' living room again. As I dip the Italian cookies I ‘brought for my family’ in my cappuccino, I can’t help but…

The City of Edinburgh is buzzing with holiday cheer. Every street is adorned with twinkling lights and the smell of mulled wine fills the air. Given the limited daylight in December (the sun sets by 4:00 PM each day), I look forward to each evening when…