My 4 month Penn State adventure

This is my first blog post (a little late!) while on my semester abroad at Penn State University. Since I am now near the end of my time here, I am going to try to summarise all the highlights. So

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A Semester at Webb Institute, NY

Over the past academic semester, I was lucky enough to study at the Webb Institute of Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture in Long Island, New York. The decision to take a semester abroad was a tough one, I remember changing

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Welcome to Penn State- A Retrospective

Hi! My name is Oliver and I have just come back from an exchange at Pennsylvania State University. If you are thinking about going abroad or are about to, I hope you will find some useful information, tips and tricks

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First Month at Purdue, Indiana

Hi I’m Justin, I’m a Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Southampton, and I’m spending my semester abroad at Purdue University, Indiana, USA. I’ll be using this blog to record my experience here and hopefully give an idea to

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Studying in the USA: One Year On

Despite feeling like only yesterday, it’s been a year since I first departed for the United States, and so much has happened in that year. My final exams are over and so I now have an opportunity to reflect on the

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The nice stuff I’ve done

Before the work started, the local churches were excellent at organising things for international students, even if you weren’t a part of the church. Below is a picture from a hike up the local ‘mountain’. They also put on trips

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