A Summer in Xiamen

I decided to attend the Xiamen Summer School because the city of Xiamen (厦门) and Xiamen University (厦大) are often held in the highest regard by Chinese students. The programme combined academic learning and cultural understanding with economics lectures and social

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Le Mans Summer School

Hello everyone! I am a French and German student and have just returned from a 4 week long summer school in Le Mans, France. The summer school was a great experience as I was able to meet people from all

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After a semester in Singapore…

Everyone I had talked to about being on an exchange semester/year told me it had been an amazing and highly recommended episode of their lives and explained how much it had changed them. Most of them also mentioned the reverse

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Summer School Trip to Chengdu (2018)

First off I’ll start off by saying that this was the best trip of my life. It was an unbelievable experience and I had an amazing time! China is such an interesting and amazing country and I enjoyed every second

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A year in the US of A

Having to condense 9 months studying abroad into one blog post is proving to be much more of a challenge than I first thought – maybe if I had been more organised and blogged whilst I was away like I

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The Delights of Geneva

I should like the window to open onto the Lake of Geneva — and there I’d sit and read all day -John Keats, 1819 When I chose to go to CERN I expected to gain some experience in the world

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