According to the NAFSA, over 300,000 students travel to study abroad every year. That’s almost 10% of college students in the United States. In fact, a majority of U.S. students who choose to study abroad often frequent countries in European, including Italy, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. Despite the major increase in students traveling abroad, there is also a high price to pay. With the high cost o ...

So you have completely abandoned yourself to the delights of “La dolce vita” ? At first it was one extra glass of Chianti, the pastries and the gelato ..and now.. all of a sudden- you are trying to figure out if the washing machine is shrinking your clothes or if the weighting scale is broken!!- CAPITA! On average a student abroad gains around 7kg a year! Between the natural curiosity of discovering or redi ...

On Island Time: My Take on Sicily By: Kate Sefton Being in Taormina felt like being in a new country. The Italian way of life that I have become accustomed to over the past few months was completely different than the way of life in Sicily. The culture in Sicily was very different from that in Florence. Coming from America, I thought that the Florentine way of life was drastically slowed down from my typica ...