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I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s already that time of year again: the leaves are changing, students are bundling up just to go downstairs and pick up their Postmates, and we\u2019re still living through a middle of a global pandemic of apocalyptic proportions. I just love fall, don\u2019t you?<\/span><\/p>\n Last semester, I had the pleasure of studying abroad in the U.K. It will definitely be one of my most cherished memories of BU, but there are some things I wish I\u2019d known going in that might have changed my experience a bit. Hopefully, I can impart some of this knowledge on you and live vicariously through your perfectly curated Instagram photos.<\/span><\/p>\n This one\u2019s pretty self explanatory. Even if there\u2019s just an inkling, save yourself the heartache of buying tickets to Romeo and Juliet at the Globe only to go home days before.<\/span><\/p>\n This one isn’t as bad as it sounds. BU outsources the heavy lifting of finding an internship abroad to a company called EUSA. Good news? That means there\u2019s very little work to do on your end to obtain gainful employment. Bad news? They\u2019re dealing with about 30-40 other students at the same time. It\u2019s easy to get lost in an email chain, so don\u2019t be afraid to speak up about a) what type of internship position you want and b) when you can expect to hear back about whether or not you got it. The internship can make or break your abroad experience. Take a lesson from the 5 year olds I babysit: never settle.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, I still catch myself calling the MBTA the tube. No, it doesn\u2019t make any sense. If Londoners love one thing, it\u2019s silence. Well, maybe also tea. And beer. And a good English breakfast. But silence is definitely in the top 5. The easiest way to out yourself as a tourist to the locals is through boisterous discussion on the tube. Anything above a whisper is taboo. And if you\u2019re whispering, you better have an absolutely incredible reason, like a fire, or seeing Robert Pattinson. Besides, if you were talking, how could you hear the absolute gems schoolchildren drop on their way home? (\u201cNah, mans, it ain\u2019t like that. I\u2019m different, mans want bodies, I\u2019m built different.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m by no means an anglophile, but it\u2019s pretty universally known that the English love tea. I\u2019m not a big drinker myself, but regardless, in an office space, it\u2019s an easy way to make friends and win goodwill. A few important points:<\/span><\/p>\n We all know you mean soccer. Just take one for the team and do it so we don\u2019t get bum rushed by the lads outside the pub, okay?<\/span><\/p>\n You know, unless you like heartbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n Brexit is a reality (and no one seems to like it), but that doesn\u2019t mean you won\u2019t have access to the rest of the EU! I\u2019m fortunate enough to be a dual citizen to Spain, so my Spanish passport has gotten me around some long lines in the airport. Be sure not to burn yourself out travelling too much, though. It\u2019s unlikely that you\u2019ll have weekdays off, so your window of travel is probably Friday evening to Sunday evening. Those are tough trips to make. More than a few consecutively, and your bunk bed might seem a little more inviting than mandatory attendance in statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n How did I break my wrist, you ask? Oh, you know. Just a nasty petting zoo accident. I know, the NHS just seems so inviting. But as blood vessels swell at higher altitudes, your injury might get stuck in the hard plaster and keep blood from your extremities. A really sticky situation 30 minutes into your 8 hour flight home. Finally,<\/span><\/p>\n I really cannot hammer this one home enough. My time in London was absolutely life changing, but I still can\u2019t shake the feeling that it would have been better somehow if I just, I don\u2019t know…wasn\u2019t there in the middle of the end of the world. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s already that time of year again: the leaves are changing, students are bundling up just to go downstairs and pick up their Postmates, and we\u2019re still living through a middle of a global pandemic of apocalyptic proportions. I just love fall, don\u2019t you? Last semester, I had the pleasure of studying … Continue reading Alex: Dos and Don’ts of Studying Abroad in London<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44483],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035"}],"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=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5038,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}DON\u2019T: <\/b>Go in the middle of the biggest worldwide epidemic of the century.<\/span><\/h4>\n
DO: <\/b>Bug your EUSA contact about internship updates.<\/span><\/h4>\n
DON\u2019T: <\/b>Talk on the tube.<\/span><\/h4>\n
DO: <\/b>Learn a few basics about tea.<\/span><\/h4>\n
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DO: <\/b>Call it football.<\/span><\/h4>\n
DON\u2019T: <\/b>Root for Arsenal.<\/span><\/h4>\n
DO: <\/b>Bring a European passport (if you have one).<\/span><\/h4>\n
DON\u2019T: <\/b>Get a cast if you intend to fly home.<\/span><\/h4>\n
DO: <\/b>NOT GO TO LONDON DURING THE PANDEMIC.<\/span><\/h4>\n