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ACM Costa Rica 1990-91 Sophomore Year Abroad Many people thought I was crazy going abroad for my sophomore year, but I was convinced that it was the only way to…

My study abroad experience in 2011 had a lasting impact on me. I studied Studio Art with Professor Fred Hagstrom in the Cook Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. On that…

Every moment of the London seminar in the fall of 1992 (faculty advisor, George Soule) was new and memorable. I’ll start with what sounds like a pedestrian one: the flight…

At our last class, George said “We’ll always have London.” I think about that moment every time a memory pops up about my Spring 2010 OCS trip to London, where,…

Carleton enthusiastically embraced and encouraged study abroad in the 1980s (which wasn’t as common at all colleges at the time). It had a big impact on me, including hearing about…

When I was a Carleton student in the mid-1980s, Andrea Iseminger was the Off-Campus Studies director and Mary Zeman was the office’s administrative assistant. The office was located on the…

Before my fall study abroad program in Barcelona, I got together with two good friends following their summer study abroad program in Cambridge to travel around Europe. For 12 days,…

During my four years at Carleton I studied abroad not once but three times. Each of these experiences had a positive impact on me, not least of which being the…

I participated in the Paris Program with Professor Cathy Yandell in the spring of 1998.  My marvelously quirky host family enveloped me in love and adventure.  With their three children,…

I think almost daily about how grateful I am for the opportunities afforded to me by Carleton’s off-campus study program and Spanish department. It was the two in tandem that…