Posts Tagged ‘Study Abroad’

PacRim abroad program to undergo changes

PacRim abroad program to undergo changes

This spring, a small group of Puget Sound students received possibly one of the most exciting pieces of news in their lives: They had been accepted into the Pacific Rim/Asia Study-Travel Program (PRAST or PacRim for short). Unique to Puget Sound, PacRim is a kind of study-abroad-on-steroids in which students travel for a year to [...]

Point/Counterpoint: Are students returning form study-abroad body snatchers?

POINT: Returning Study Abroad Students Have Been Replaced by Body Snatchers. By Conner Stenner Ladies and gentlemen of the campus community: inhuman, godless monsters have overrun our beloved university. They have no conscience or moral compass. I know for certain that these returning study abroad students are not who they say they are. The people [...]

Diversity reaches fourteen

Diversity reaches fourteen

Returning students may have noticed a pleasant, albeit extreme, increase in the number of new students who are not middle-to-upper class white kids. Most happy about this increase, though, is the administration. “Puget Sound has always prided itself on breaking down cultural boundaries and has striven to integrate young people from all walks of life,” [...]

Tips for study abroad

For some students, college is as far from home as they have ever been, and sometimes it is as far as they want to go. Others, however, make the choice to study abroad. During the 2008-09 academic year approximately 260,300 American students spent time studying abroad. Around 47 percent of them were in Europe, according [...]

Study abroad applications finalized for the upcoming year

An air of anticipation hangs over many students on the Puget Sound campus.  Many upperclassmen have applied to study abroad in the coming year and they are anxiously awaiting the results of their applications that were due on Feb. 15. Students applied to schools all over the world, from Tanzania to Denmark. According to the [...]

Seeing Spain: To Cordoba!

Seeing Spain: To Cordoba!

Cordoba, Spain — Study abroad tip number two: travel like a crazy person when you’re abroad because it is much easier and much cheaper to do than when you are in the states. I can’t speak for all of the programs Puget Sound has to offer, but the ILACA Spain program includes travel time within [...]