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Health sciences and physical therapy major Matthew Whitney (SAR’12) talks about the hands-on experiences he gained through the Boston University Dublin Internship Program.
Read the story on BU Today: [...]http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/bu-abroad-hands-on-in-dublin/
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Jackie spent a spring semester in the Ecuador Tropical Ecology Program, studying in the field and at Universidad San Francisco de Quito "My time in Ecuador allowed me to immerse myself in Ecuadorian culture and take away a better understanding of [...]the language, ideals, and way of life," she says.
The highlight of her experience, though, was a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands, the place, she says, that ties everything together for me. Like Darwin and countless naturalists before her, she reveled in the biodiversity found in the archipelago. "That such a small country could preserve and protect such biodiversity is something to look up to," she says.
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Studying in Buenos Aires brought Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo’s stories to life in a way that Arlene Ovalle-Child (GRS’06,’11) says she couldn’t have experienced anywhere else.
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[...]http://www.bu.edu/today/node/11602
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A look at the study abroad experience in Peru, which takes students from Lima to Ayacucho to Machu Picchu.
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http://www.bu.edu/today/node/11664
Boston University no longer offers this study abroad program.
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The first commercial bungee jump took place in New Zealand, in 1988. A. J. Hackett, a bungee enthusiast and entrepreneur, ushered in adventure tourism in New Zealand when he started charging people money to hurl themselves off of the Kawarua Bridge [...]in Queenstown. When Julia, an outdoors enthusiast and hospitality student, decided she was going to participate in the Auckland Internship Program, she knew she wanted a piece of that. http://www.bu.edu/abroad/
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Bruna Maia (CAS’10) talks about the education and experiences she gained studying abroad in Peru.
Read the story on BU Today:
http://www.bu.edu/today/node/11664
Boston University no longer offers this study abroad program.
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Watch BU students in the Arts in Ireland course play the bodhrán and tin whistle in a Seisiún, or Irish traditional music session, with a group of Irish musicians.
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While studying abroad in Sydney in the spring of 2009, Chase (CAS’10) experienced both a dream come true and a transformation of perspective.
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Production interns on NBCs "Today Show" would probably count handing a cup of coffee to Matt Lauer as a semester highlight. But as Alexandra Daks found out last spring in BU's Sydney Internship Program, in Australia it's different.
Read the story [...]on BU Today:
http://www.bu.edu/today/node/9586
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