Studying can be done here, there, and everywhere!

Hello!

I haven't posted in a while because I've been really busy with school and work. Classes are starting to pick up so I've been doing a lot of reading and studying. I've also been working as much as possible so I can save money for my trip to Europe in May! This isn't just any trip, it is a trip that is part of a class I am taking this semester! I'll tell you more about that in a minute...

I wanted to talked about Study Abroad opprotunities at the University of Tampa. Now, I had always said from day one of my college career that I had no desire to go abroad. I felt I was far enough from home being in Florida, why did I need to go anywhere else? I had heard a lot about the different Study Abroad programs UT offers, but I wasn't that interested. My roommate, however, decided that she wanted to get more information about it. She went to a Study Abroad Fair on campus (Which are held a few times each semester for all students to check out) and got information about studying in Australia. My roommate is also from Massachusetts, so I asked her why she'd want to go half way around the world to try something new when she was already 1200 miles from home. She explained to me that she would never have this opprotunity again and wanted to see a different part of the world. I totally understood that and started to think about what I could do.

My roommate was right, there may not be another opprotunity in your life to go somewhere totally different and study for a few months other than in college. Study Abroad programs are available for students to go all over the world. Just a few places where UT has students studying right now include Florence, Barcelona, London, Sydney, and even a semester at sea. Studying abroad is an amazing opprotunity for students to explore the world while still being educated by an affilated university or college.

If you didn't want to spend an entire semester or year away, UT offers travel classes, which is the route I decided to go. As part of the curriculum of a class, students spend 7 or 14 weeks in a class at the UT campus and then, in either the winter or summer, travel to the countries that were studied in the class. For example, I am taking a Speech class at UT for the second 7 weeks of this semester. We will be studying the different types of speaking that are done in 4 different European cities: London, Munich, Barcelona, and Rome. After the semester ends in May, about 30 of my classmates and I will travel to those cities for a 2 week trip to witness first-hand what we have studied in class. 4 faculty members will be going on the trip with us, so we won't be left on our own in europe (my mom was a big fan of this aspect of the study abroad program I decided on)

UT offers so many amazing programs abroad that I can't give it justice. Here is the link to UT's Education Abroad website that you can check out if you are interested!
http://www.ut.edu/education-abroad/

I hope everyone has a great weeked! :)