Under the current system, Georgetown University students who study abroad are often paying exorbitant fees for insufficient support.
Foreign students who matriculated directly into the London School...
As I sit down at my desk to write the final column of Chronicles from Copenhagen, I am faced with the sad reality that my time abroad is nearing its end.
Every city I have visited and every new person...
While on the plane flying into Barcelona, Spain, this past weekend, I was struck by the visuals of the rocky Pyrenees Mountains carving a deep swath across the Iberian Peninsula from 30,000 feet in the...
La Virgen de Guadalupe, or the Virgin of Guadalupe, first appeared to an indigenous man named Juan Diego in 1531, speaking to him in his native Nahuatl language and asking him to build a chapel in her...
This past week, I journeyed to Brussels, Belgium with my European politics course to study the European Union by touring the various institutions headquartered in Brussels and interviewing key players...
Hello, Hoyas on the Hilltop and abroad. I am currently studying in Hong Kong, and well, even across the Pacific, I still see snaps and get email updates, so all in all, I have a lot of questions.
WHAT...
Angela Merkel’s calm yet determined gaze followed me everywhere in Hamburg, Germany, last weekend. With the parliamentary elections having taken place Sept. 24, seemingly every available sign post and...
At first I did not feel it. But the rocking motion, similar to that of a boat on choppy water, immediately silenced our classroom. My professor’s face grew pale as she pointed to the door: “Earthquake....
I have been spending my first month of the fall semester not on the Hilltop, but in Mexico City, where I have been immersed in a culture filled with the smooth but exhausting Spanish of chilangos —...
This semester, I am away from the Hilltop studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is a cosmopolitan and thriving city; the people and the culture make it exceptionally easy to fall in love with...
Did I mention I studied abroad?
Step off of the Hilltop and outside of the Georgetown Bubble, and you will find many things to learn, do and see. The decision to "study" abroad was undoubtedly one of...
“Wow, that’s so intense for a spring break trip!” “Won’t you get jet-lagged?” “What’s the time difference?”
These are just some of the reactions I heard upon telling people that I...
