Suddenly the deep blue sea
Horns meet World. World meet Jennifer Yang. Jennifer is an English major at UT, and she spent her sophomore year abroad on an exchange at the Université Jean Moulin in Lyon, France. She kept a blog while abroad and shares…
UT Education Abroad Blog
Inspiring Longhorns to Explore the World
UT Education Abroad Blog
Inspiring Longhorns to Explore the World
Comparing Housing Abroad
This week, we look at one of the big questions that pop up when you get that acceptance letter for study abroad: what housing options are there abroad and how do you choose among them? We peers list four of…
Safety Abroad
Safety often emerges as a concern for students going abroad for the first time and their loved ones. However, risk can only be reduced and not eliminated, not even in the country’s most boring suburb. This week, the Peers have…
Guatemala or Guatebuena?
Horns meet World. World meet Natalie. Natalie is a religious studies major here at UT, and studied abroad summer of 2015 in Antigua, Guatemala. In the post below she write about her experience studying the effects of NGOs while becoming…
Tschüss, Texas!
Horns meet World. World meet Arianna. Arianna Fritz. Arianna is an international relations and global studies major here at UT, and she spent the summer of 2015 abroad at Europa-Universitaet Viadrina Frankfurt in Germany. It’s been a year since I felt…
“So, Why Should We Hire You?”
It takes guts walking into the International Office and saying “I want to study Abroad”. Not only does it take guts, but it takes initiative and lots of planning once you get started on the process. All of that is…
Lessons on Hostel Travel
During my year abroad in Santiago, Chile, I was fortunate enough to spend two weeks traveling in the south of the country, two months backpacking by myself in neighboring Argentina (with only the backpack I took to class!), and ten…
Adventures in Botswana
Horns meet World. World meet Alexandra Gary. Alexandra is a nursing major here at UT, and she spent the summer of 2014 abroad in Gaborone, Botswana studying community public health! When I first decided to study abroad in Gaborone (the…
Where Should I Go? Cana-DUH!
At the beginning of November, recently elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made history by appointing an equal number of men and women on his cabinet “because it’s 2015.” He has a list of ambitious and progressive goals for the…