{"id":4271,"date":"2018-10-26T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2018-10-23T22:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T02:39:25","slug":"hali-youre-studying-abroad-but-arent-you-a-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2018\/10\/26\/hali-youre-studying-abroad-but-arent-you-a-senior\/","title":{"rendered":"Hali: You\u2019re Studying Abroad? But Aren\u2019t You a Senior?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To answer the questions posed in this title, yes! And yes!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I think an overwhelming majority of COM students choose to study abroad during their junior year. I don\u2019t have any stats, but I\u2019m sure someone in the Undergraduate Affairs office can give you some numbers. By the beginning of my junior year, however, it became clear that this wasn\u2019t the best choice for me. And guess what? That\u2019s okay!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After I made the decision to study abroad senior year, there were plenty of times when I worried I was making the wrong choice. The idea of coming back to campus and only having one semester left terrified me. I couldn\u2019t bear the thought of missing Splash. My heart yearned to see the fall leaves cover Bay State Road one last time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But as this semester approached, I grew more and more secure in my decision. Being abroad as a senior has given me an opportunity to reflect on my time at BU. As a senior, I feel so much better equipped to handle some of the challenges that come along with studying and interning in this new environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Just to make myself feel ever more sure that I\u2019ve made an excellent life decision, I\u2019ve compiled a list of reasons why it\u2019s a great idea to study abroad during senior year.\u00a0<\/span>\"PHOTOI\u2019m studying abroad in London, but here\u2019s a photo of me in front of the Colosseum. Go abroad so you can book cheap flights to Italy!<\/span><\/p>\n

#1: Seize That Senior-Year YOLO Attitude
\n<\/span><\/b><\/span>As a senior, you\u2019re constantly aware of the fact that you\u2019re doing things for the last time. You only get to experience college once, and it\u2019s so easy to forget that as an underclassman. Being a senior has made me seize every opportunity I\u2019ve had abroad, because I\u2019m hyperaware of the fact that I\u2019ll never have an opportunity like this again. I\u2019m so lucky to be here, so I\u2019d better act like it, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

#2: Take time to get experience, experience, and more experience
\n<\/span><\/b>Did someone say experience? If you\u2019re a COM student choosing to do an abroad internship program, it feels SO good to go abroad knowing a thing or two (or a lot more than a thing or two) about your field. Junior year me wouldn\u2019t be as confident at her abroad internship as senior year me is. I don\u2019t regret taking the extra time to build my resume and recognize what I wanted to get out of an internship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"ProcessedFollow me on Instagram @halisimone for more cloudy-sky London content.<\/p>\n

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#3: Gain New Appreciation for BU
\n<\/span><\/b><\/span>It\u2019s going to be so sad to leave London in December. But when I come back to BU, I know I\u2019m going to cherish every moment. Knowing that I have such little time left to appreciate the COM lounge and the Warren Towers Starbucks makes me \u2014 dare I say it \u2014 excited (and emotional) to return back to campus. Wow, can you believe I\u2019m weeping now?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This post isn\u2019t here to convince you to go abroad senior year instead of junior year. It\u2019s to remind you that you should go abroad whenever you want to! Think about what\u2019s best for YOU, and how you want to shape your college experience and timeline. If that means having a little less time to enjoy the BU Pub, so be it (I hear the pubs are better in London anyway).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To answer the questions posed in this title, yes! And yes!\u00a0 I think an overwhelming majority of COM students choose to study abroad during their junior year. I don\u2019t have any stats, but I\u2019m sure someone in the Undergraduate Affairs office can give you some numbers. By the beginning of my junior year, however, it … Continue reading Hali: You\u2019re Studying Abroad? But Aren\u2019t You a Senior?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44439],"tags":[44495,44553,3338,44355,44446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271"}],"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=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}