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3-minute Travel Guide: Bangkok, Thailand

2025-04-14T16:48:57-07:00

What is it like to study abroad in Bangkok, Thailand? Check out UC Santa Barbara's Edwin Giron-Montenegro's tips and advice on best day trips, food to eat, and how to visit other Southeast Asian countries. Hint: you can leave that sweatshirt behind.

3-minute Travel Guide: Bangkok, Thailand2025-04-14T16:48:57-07:00

3-minute Travel Guide: Seoul, South Korea

2025-04-14T16:50:58-07:00

What would it be like to study abroad in Seoul, South Korea? Read UC Santa Cruz's Griselda Carolina Torres' advice on where to study, classes you have to take, and must-try local dishes. Griselda shares tips on what to pack, what to leave behind, and how to fit in.

3-minute Travel Guide: Seoul, South Korea2025-04-14T16:50:58-07:00

Tips for a regenerative—not just sustainable—study abroad experience

2023-10-02T11:09:07-07:00

Want to know how you can make your study abroad travel sustainable? Here are some actionable tips to help you study abroad with as little impact as possible and strategies to leave the community abroad a little better when you're gone.

Tips for a regenerative—not just sustainable—study abroad experience2023-10-02T11:09:07-07:00

How Study Abroad Helped Me Embrace the Complexities of All My Identities

2025-04-14T16:54:36-07:00

Learn how studying abroad through Latin America helped one UC Santa Cruz student, Elisabet Raquel García, discover, protect, and finally embrace her identities as a multicultural queer Latina to take her place as family historian.

How Study Abroad Helped Me Embrace the Complexities of All My Identities2025-04-14T16:54:36-07:00

3-minute travel guide: Barcelona, Spain

2025-04-14T16:56:11-07:00

Ever wonder what it's like to study abroad in Spain? Read UC Berkeley Claudia Waldman's advice on where to live, what to eat, and unforgettable weekend trips to take in the Basque country. Claudia shares what to pack, what to leave behind, and what to buy while you're in Barcelona.

3-minute travel guide: Barcelona, Spain2025-04-14T16:56:11-07:00

11 Steps to a Career Abroad, Starting with Study Abroad

2024-09-30T14:23:05-07:00

Wondering how to get a career abroad after graduation? Sierra Alef-Defoe has some useful advice for you and it starts with study abroad. Through fellowships, working summers, and graduate work abroad (saving loads of money), she has spent years of her career abroad and has never looked back.

11 Steps to a Career Abroad, Starting with Study Abroad2024-09-30T14:23:05-07:00

Dear future study abroad kid

2025-04-14T16:59:23-07:00

If you're wondering why you would leave behind the life you worked so hard for back home, Elena Mateus (UC Berkeley) has some advice to offer. Study abroad won't always be easy and it won't always look like the perfect Instagram posts, but it will be worth it and just might be the best decision in your life.

Dear future study abroad kid2025-04-14T16:59:23-07:00
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