Inspiring Longhorns to Explore the World
Inspiring Longhorns to Explore the World
The moment I got accepted into the SPICE Communications Program in Erfurt, Germany, I knew I had to take a trip to Kraków, Poland. I’ve always had a deep appreciation for history, and it wasn’t until I sat down to…
A single misplaced word in a residency filing can change what happens to someone’s entire life plan. That was one of the first lessons my internship taught me, and it’s the one I keep returning to. This summer, I worked as a legal…
“What is one experiment you might try this month?” Our guest speaker, a petite woman with a carrying voice, repeated the question several times during our self-reflection activity. Here’s what I wrote: “One small experiment I might try this month is…
Studying biology and French at The University of Texas at Austin is a dream come true. I’ve developed so much as a person over the past two years as a Longhorn. However, I recently caught myself running in the rat race of…
I have many times received — and never quite understood — the advice to “slow down” and “take a breath.” To me, this has always seemed like a waste of time and energy, a fake solution I was sold to fix…
Right now, I’m in the heart of the mountainous cloud forest of the Tropical Andes in a small ecotourism town called Mindo, Ecuador. What’s crazy is that if you had told freshly graduated-from-high-school Kaitlin that I would be working a five-week internship fully in Spanish in…
I distinctly remember my first official day of my program. I walked out of my hotel room after dropping off my bags and walked down the stairs to meet a couple of other students who had arrived earlier. Despite knowing…
“I want to participate in the program at Oxford where students compare race and education in the U.K. and U.S. because it will give me a more sophisticated perspective on educational theory.” I wrote those words in October of 2022…
Did you know that Spain has been inhabited since the Paleolithic era? Spain has a long and incredibly rich history encompassing massive shifts in kingdoms, religions, and culture. This has shaped the nation’s cultural identity and left fascinating relics all…