Maximizing Your Study Abroad Internship Experience
Taking an internship while studying abroad is an excellent way to enhance your experience, gain some professional workplace skills, and start building a network of contacts. It shows future employers that you have cultural awareness and that you're willing to put yourself in uncomfortable places in order to learn. Here's how to maximize an internship abroad.
Study Abroad and Your Mental Health: 10 Tips to Maintain Peace and Balance
As a student who has accessed accommodations at their home campus, Jenny Lopez shares critical tips to maintain your mental health, peace and balance throughout the transformative experience of study abroad. Don't let worries stop you from this once-in-a-lifetime experience!
Seoul Searching: Lifelong Lessons from Studying Abroad in South Korea
Study abroad is an experience that teaches you beyond what you think you will learn. It stretches you, transforms you, and shakes you out of your comfort zone. See the most important lifelong lessons Nico Shin (UCSB) learned while studying abroad in South Korea.
Harvesting Olives in Provence, France
Ever wonder what it's like to spend Thanksgiving in another country, far away from your family and friends at home? Read Elias Veran's story of spending Thanksgiving weekend on an olive farm in Provence, hosted by UC alum, Thomas Seale.
How to build resilience before study abroad – and why it matters
Building resilience means you'll have the resources to bounce back more easily from unexpected difficulties that arise. Here's how, and why you should, develop resilience before you study abroad.