Author: Blake Sooter | Major: Industrial Engineering | Semester: January Intersession 2024 For a history buff and engineering student, one would be hard-pressed to plan a better start to the new year than studying abroad in Rome. Its immense history as one of the...
Author: A.J. Navarro | Major: Finance | Semester: January Intersession 2024 I’ve always been surrounded by Korean friends growing up. Since high school, they would always chat in Korean together and would try to include me by teaching me some basic words. It was a fun...
Author: Kevin Zhao | Major: Biology | Semester: January Intersession 2024 While abroad in Prague, I took the class “Czech Culture, Food, and Brewing Tradition.” I chose this program specifically because of this unique class it offered. Although one can experience any...
Author: Amanda Thomsen | Major: Economics, Mathematics | Semester: Fall 2023 If you’re a prospective traveler to the Netherlands, you may across the word “gezellig” in many of the travel blogs about things and terms to know about Dutch culture you Googled before...
Author: Maddox Townsend | Major: Architecture | Semester: Fall 2023 My semester at the University of Arkansas Rome Center has been unlike any other. As a required aspect of the bachelor’s degree in architecture, I chose to go to the Rome in my fifth-year fall semester...
Author: Steicy Lopez | Major: Economics | Semester: Fall 2023 The National Model United Nations serves as a global competition providing students with valuable exposure to research, negotiation, public speaking, and critical thinking skills. Students engage in...
Author: Hyunseo Seok | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Winter 2023-2024 Academics In 2002, I was born in South Korea. However, due to my father’s employment, our family immigrated to the United States when I was about two years old. Ever since, I visited...
Author: Sophie McAdara | Major: Political Science | Semester: Fall 2023 In French, like any language, there is a never-ending list of rules in pronunciation and grammar. However, the biggest lesson I learned during my program was to turn away from my typical...
Author: Maggie Green | Major: Journalism | Semester: Fall 2023 Ciao! My name is Maggie Green. I am a Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Journalism major, and I studied in Florence, Italy for a whole semester with CIS Abroad! In the fall of 2023, I studied travel...
Author: Jennifer Sandoval | Major: Interior Architecture and Design | Semester: Fall 2023 Now that I have returned home and have had time to reflect on the past semester that I spent in Rome, I am finally able to put into thought and words just how amazing of an...