Global Tiger Tales

Adan Youngblood: Architecture in Rome Almost a year before my study abroad program took place, I sat at The Bean coffee shop, clicking the refresh button on my email over and over. My friends had started receiving their Architecture in Rome acceptance emails, and I was anxious to receive mine. When the email finally appeared, I opened it to confirm...

Christina Alibozek: Bordeaux Exchange Program These were the words at the forefront of my mind as I sat on the plane home, tear-streaked face, looking down on the city that had become my home for the past 5 months. It was hard to believe that a place I had never even visited before had become so special to me in...

Hollen Terry: Backpacking Across Europe with College Human Sciences Summer 2019 Five weeks, nine countries, fourteen cities, and one big, green backpack. Mine was no ordinary pack, It wasn’t the outdoorsy type that hikers take when they go camping, backpacking, or trekking through rugged terrain. I found those types of packs to be too small for five weeks’ worth of...

Courtney Kloor: Summer Internship in Dublin at University College Dublin, Ireland Summer 2019 Picture this with me a whole summer in a beautiful land known for its rolling green hills and friendly locals. Or even better, a country where the highs range around 75 F and it is almost always overcast; for a pale person like me this sounded almost...

Serena Ussery: Semester Program in Alcala de Henares, Spain 2019 “bee bop boop,” says the robot that I knew as Mr. Crumb Eater. The flat, automatic vacuum needed no help entering my room to pick up my leftover chips. My large paned window is open. Cracked rather, and I can hear my clothes doing whatever the wind tells them to...

Harrison Svrcek: IFSA-Butler Reimagining Europe in Prague, Czech Republic Spring 2019 Whenever I asked for advice about College and things people wish they knew at my age, people always said one of two things: that studying abroad was one of the best experiences of their life or they wished they had studied abroad. So I made it a point to...

Mary Grace Grigson: Alcalá de Henares, Spain Spring 2019 I have loved the Spanish language ever since I was in elementary school. From kindergarten to second grade I attended a bilingual school, where half of my day was in English and the other half in Spanish. I believe this is where my love for Spanish began. Coming to college I...