Stories, photos, and experiences from UMass Boston study abroad alumni.
By: John Patrick Moylan My name is John Moylan. I will be studying abroad in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. I am a third-year Criminal Justice Major at the University of Massachusetts Boston. I grew up about an hour away from Boston in a town called Mansfield. It is where the Xfinity Center... Continue Reading →
By: Laryssa Dure I am finally in Paris! After all of the preparations and all of the nervousness, I made it. Promptly after my landing at the airport, I quickly exchanged some money to hop on a taxi for the student hotel where I will be staying for the next three weeks. The ride was... Continue Reading →
By: Laryssa Dure Title: Pre-Departure Post! I am anxious about my trip abroad! Who wouldn’t be anxious about their first solo trip? As Angelina Jolie mentioned: “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” This quote speaks to my excitement about my... Continue Reading →
View from the walls of the Old City of Akko The real count, to when I actually left Israel is from September 22, 2019 to March 17, 2020. That totals 177 days, or 25 weeks and 2 days. Which means that I’ve been back in the United States for 81 days, or 11 weeks and... Continue Reading →
A lot has happened since the last time I did one of these. Unfortunately, in all the craziness, I did not have time to take more pictures of Israel before I left, so instead I’m giving you all the pictures I took of the cats I named while there. Toenail, Yayin, Jellybean, and Rugelach As... Continue Reading →
Before ever going to South Korea I made a lot of plans. I knew I wanted to get a lot of tattoos and my eyebrows microbladed. I’ve been following artists on Instagram for years and I finally got the opportunity to be in the same country as them. Being in quarantine I had nothing to... Continue Reading →
By: Justyn Santiago Photo of the NOVA SBE Campus in Lisbon, Portugal at sunset. My first two weeks in Lisbon have been blessings on blessings. I honestly just feel grateful to have landed safely and have a roof over my head. My first week of classes was surprisingly a little difficult for me because I... Continue Reading →
Well! Things can certainly change very quickly! Thursday, the 12th of March, was a day like any other. I was going to my classes, meeting with a teacher, panicking a little quietly about the upcoming assignments that needed to be done...when I got an email from U-Mass Boston at 1 PM. Now, I had nothing... Continue Reading →
It's been over a month since I have left the US. So many things have happened and many changes. Let’s start from the beginning on 2/21 I got on my flight from Boston to Hong Kong. I had an 8-hour layover in Hong Kong and here I am to tell the story. They checked my... Continue Reading →
By: Falianne Forges The day we went to a Weimar, we walked through the World Heritage site that was established there. When I say, “we all,” I mean the class of students in the Culture Module. On the site there was a river surrounded by a great deal of stone which was close to the university ground... Continue Reading →
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