Terps Abroad Stories
Featured Stories
Finding Home Away from Home: Antoinette's semester with Maryland-in-Florence (ARCH)
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Building Community While Abroad: Jordan Bellamy's exchange in Amsterdam
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Working With Local Students to Solve a Town’s Traffic Congestion: John Meyers’s Winter in the Czech Republic
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Amanda Radko on UMD-Summer: Spain
"I navigated two new cities/towns and a whole new culture, while taking two classes and living with strangers."
Josephine Fallon on UMD-Summer: France
"Try to balance your background with understanding cultural differences and being flexible."
Isabelle Mamet on UMD-Summer: Thailand (CCJS/MLAW)
"This class was designed to inform students not only on the types of human trafficking occurring in Thailand but also the consequences of it and reactions to it. When I first heard of this class, I knew I had to enroll so I could get the chance to apply my knowledge in Criminology and Criminal Justice to a real world issue such as human trafficking."
Julia Eisen's semester with Maryland-in-Rome
"Journalism majors can study abroad!!! It's advised by the college to not study abroad because there are very limited programs that have any sort of media or journalism classes, but if you plan ahead of time, you can still study abroad."
Samantha Fielder's exchange with SKEMA Business School
"Studying abroad is not easy or cheap and that's the truth, but it is not impossible."
Nick Perkins's exchange at University New South Wales
"I thought it was so interesting to see all of the cultural differences that everyone had. However, the most fascinating part was how similar we all were."