{"id":2232,"date":"2016-03-24T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2016-11-18T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T21:22:05","slug":"joe-why-you-shouldnt-study-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2016\/03\/24\/joe-why-you-shouldnt-study-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe: Why you SHOULDN\u2019T study abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine leaving everything you know behind to live in a foreign place for four months? Well, hold on to your hats, kids, because this guy did just that and moved to this tiny little place called London. Maybe you\u2019ve heard of it, maybe you haven\u2019t. But I\u2019m here to tell you why you shouldn\u2019t abandon everything you know for an experience abroad. You will hate every second of it and have so much regret, continuously counting down the days until you\u2019re back home living with your parents.<\/p>\n

Trust me.<\/p>\n

First of all, London is D I S G U S T I N G. There are so many scenic landmarks to photograph that you\u2019ll be too overwhelmed. And sometimes the sun comes out and it\u2019s warm and it\u2019ll make you go \u201cWHYYYYYYY????\u201d<\/p>\n

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Secondly, there is nothing to do here. It\u2019s unbearable. There\u2019s only so many times you can go to the Harry Potter Studio Tour, Borough Market, Camden Market, Portobello Market, Shoreditch, SoHo, Chelsea, Oxford Circus, ride the London Eye, see Big Ben, explore the South Bank, go to Brighton Beach, etc. before you get tired of it all. The lack of things to do here makes London incredibly boring.<\/span><\/p>\n

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London is so segregated from the rest of Europe that it\u2019s almost impossible to travel beyond the UK. A 3-hour train ride just to get to Paris\u2026seriously!?! Truthfully, I\u2019ll settle for nothing longer than 2 hours and 59 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(P.S. The pizza in Florence is literally so gross that you’ll contemplate how lucky you are to never have to see it again)<\/p>\n

Everyone here speaks English and it\u2019s sooooooo inconvenient. To be able to understand what everyone is saying all the time is not exactly what I had in mind when fantasizing about my time abroad. And the people are a little too friendly. It\u2019s like they\u2019re overcompensating for that time we dumped their tea in a certain harbor. Or their overzealous imperialism.<\/p>\n

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And lastly, it sucks because I\u2019m further than I\u2019d like to be from the greatest man on the planet and my real life role model, as pictured below.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So, in conclusion, it\u2019s probably best that you just don\u2019t come here. I\u2019ll stay and carry this burden for the both of us.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine leaving everything you know behind to live in a foreign place for four months? Well, hold on to your hats, kids, because this guy did just that and moved to this tiny little place called London. Maybe you\u2019ve heard of it, maybe you haven\u2019t. But I\u2019m here to tell you why you shouldn\u2019t abandon … Continue reading Joe: Why you SHOULDN\u2019T study abroad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44412,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}