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Student profiles & blogs

Selected students on ACM off-campus study programs act as Global Ambassadors, blogging about their time studying off-campus.  Take a look to learn more about the ACM student experience!

Botswana: University Immersion in Southern Africa See all profiles »


Brazil: Semester Exchange Programs See all profiles »


Chicago Program: Arts, Entrepreneurship, & Urban Studies See all profiles »


Costa Rica: Field Research in the Environment, Social Sciences, & Humanities See all profiles »


Costa Rica: Language, Society, & the Environment See all profiles »


Florence: Arts, Humanities, & Culture See all profiles »


India Summer Program: Service Learning & Cultural Immersion See all profiles »


India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization See all profiles »


Japan Study See all profiles »


London & Florence: Arts in Context See all profiles »


Mexico Summer Program: Service Learning & Language Immersion See all profiles »


Newberry Seminar: Research in the Humanities See all profiles »


Oak Ridge Science Semester See all profiles »


Tanzania: Ecology & Human Origins See all profiles »


These student blogs are intended to provide insight into life as a student on an ACM off-campus study program. The opinions expressed by the students on their blogs are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. ACM is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information supplied by these student blogs.

Off-campus study

Recent blog posts

Packing…
By Kelly, 2/1/2012
…is hard. What do I absolutely NEED to bring? What can I buy there? What can I expect my host family to provide for me? (Fun fact: As of now, I…
First post!
By Kelly, 12/27/2011
Testing 1-2-3! For those of you reading this: hello! You’ve stumbled upon my study abroad blog. Congratulations! I hope you’ll read on and learn a…
We arrived in Rome around 8:45 this morning. As we walked...
By (author unknown), 2/3/2012
We arrived in Rome around 8:45 this morning. As we walked into the entrance to the Vatican Necropolis, it started snowing. And then it snowed some…
Pagani Wisdom, pt. I
By (author unknown), 2/3/2012
This exchange occurred within a dinner conversation that touched on Wal-Mart, the supermarket, and public nudity. Gabriella: “Black Frrriday? I see…
Familia y Galletas
By Emma, 2/3/2012
Little by little, I’m starting toget more accustomed to life here in Costa Rica. I still look and sound like a gringa, but at least I know how…
Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, cleary, all in a days work.
By lifeofaqueergirl, 2/2/2012
More like in the same week! Yes that right my lucky socks landed me in an article that ran in the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday. Coincidence that it…
just exploring
By (author unknown), 2/2/2012
So much has happened in the last few days, we have to remind ourselves that we haven’t even been here for a week!  For class on Tuesday we walked…

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