Student Bloggers

Over the weekend, with my biodiversity and conservation classmates, I visited Kyparissia Bay and the Archelon volunteers there. Archelon is an NGO in Greece whose primary goal is sea turtle protection and conservation of the natural habitats for the turtles…

Regardless if you’re here for a semester or a year, it is such a short time. It’s already October. My friends are going to be leaving next month and I’m going to be free to roam and go on adventure until February. Time is going by so fast. We’ve been…

If you would have told me a year ago that I would be able to take a weekend trip to Spain, I would have said you were insane. Seriously, who just hops on a plane and heads to Madrid for the weekend? Well, I did. This weekend, Julia, Audrey, and I decided…

If you are studying abroad through Arcadia in London, regardless of which school you are going to, there is a good chance you are going to have a brief “pre-orientation” in the city before you depart for your school. My orientation was three days long…

O wonderHow many godly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't.–William Shakespeare My journey to Edinburgh to see the theatrical adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World began well enough…

In traditional Irish form, this blog post is a little late. Well not so much late, but it is about last weekend versus this weekend and it’s currently Sunday night. Part of me, however, likes to think my tardiness is because I’ve needed a full week to…

It is now between week 9 and week 10 here in Oz, this magical week known as lecture recess. It’s not something we have in the States but something that we really should! All it is, is just a week where you get a break from lecture and class in the middle…

I never knew that I would be able to re-live freshman year again, but it happened. Freshers week was just as I’m sure a lot of you are thinking, so I don’t need to explain much. The past two and a half weeks have been so much fun being able to explore…

“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”— Carl T. Rowan As an avid reader, libraries are one of my favorite places in the world. I can spend hours contentedly searching the shelves…