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7 Ways Students Can Travel Abroad for Less

Traveling can be incredibly enriching for students. Here are a few ways they can make their travel dreams an affordable reality.

There are some good tips in this article from WiseBread!

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My inner turmoil with not wanting to leave my SA city but missing home at the same time

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I'm looking forward to 24 Jump Street: Foreign Exchange and 25 Jump Street: Semester at Sea! ;)

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Everybody's studying abroad! Even big-headed fashion dolls!

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>my face when Americans call chips “french fries” >my face when Americans call crisps “chips” >my face when Americans call lifts “elevators” >my face when Americans call chocolate globbernaughts “candy bars” >my face when Americans call merry fizzlebombs “fireworks” >my face when Americans call wunderbahboxes a “computer” >my face when Americans call meat water “gravy” >my face when Americans call electro-rope “power cables” >my face when Americans call beef wellington ensemble with lettuce a “burger” >my face when Americans call whimsy flimsy mark and scribblies “pens” >my face when Americans call twisting plankhandles “doorknobs” >my face when Americans call breaddystack a “sandwich” >my face when Americans call their hoghity toghity tippy typers “keyboards” >my face when Americans call nutty-gum and fruit spleggings “PB&J” >my face when Americans call an upsy stairsy an “escalator” >my face when Americans call a knittedy wittedy sheepity sleepity a “sweater” >my face when Americans call a rickity-pop a “gear shift” >my face when Americans call a choco chip bucky wicky a “cookie” >my face when Americans call peepee friction pleasure “sex” >my face when Americans call a pip pip gollywock a “screwdriver” >my face when Americans call a rooty tooty point-n-shooty a “gun”  >my face when Americans call ceiling-bright a “lightbulb” >my face when Americans call blimpy bounce bounce a “ball” >my face when Americans call a slippery dippery long reppy a “snake” >my face when Americans call cobble-stone-clippity-clops “roads”

Preparing to study abroad in the UK? Better brush up on your vocabulary!

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In the 2009-10 academic year, women accounted for nearly two-thirds of 270,600 American students going overseas. Indeed, the proportion of men studying overseas has remained the same—or flatlined, to put it less charitably—for more than two decades. What is it, educators wonder, about study abroad that resonates with women but not with men?

Today is International Men's Day! If you are a man who studied abroad, you qualify as an International Man and today is your day! Celebrate by helping us recruit more men to study abroad! :D

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Actors' Day

November 13 is Actors' Day, so let's celebrate with a list of some actors who studied abroad!

Alan Alda (M*A*S*H)

Alison Brie (Community)

Darren Criss (Glee)

Allison Janney (The West Wing)

Yunjin Kim and Elizabeth Mitchell (LOST)

John Mahoney (Frasier)

Jack McBrayer (30 Rock)

Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory)

Becki Newton and Virginia Williams (How I Met Your Mother)

Amanda Setton (The Mindy Project)

Jonathan Taylor Thomas (Home Improvement)

Emma Watson (Harry Potter series)

Olivia Wilde (House)

Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect)

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Authors' Day

November 1 is Authors' Day, so let's celebrate with a list of authors who studied abroad and their characters who also studied abroad!

Agatha Christie - Miss Marple

Dan Brown - Sophie Neveu

Madeleine L'Engle - Flip Young

J.K. Rowling - Fleur Delacour and Viktor Krum

Jean Webster - Julie Andre (this is cheating a little, because Jean Webster's character was an American orphan named Jerusha Abbott who became French orphan Julie Andre for the movie version)

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Happy Thanksgiving weekend! We hope everyone enjoyed the holiday.

In 1950, University of Iowa student Joyce Horton wrote to the newspaper in her hometown of Osage, Iowa, suggesting that residents of Osage invite international students to spend Thanksgiving with them. Twelve students went with Joyce to Osage for Thanksgiving that year, and this became a tradition known as Osage International Weekend.

Read more about Thanksgivings in Osage in the original IWA blog post.

Guide to the Joyce Horton Beisswenger Papers

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One of the most memorable parts of an international experience is being invited into someone's home. Have you invited an international student to your Thanksgiving celebration?

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Message from General George Marshall

Check out some of the people who have won Marshall Scholarships and have gone on to do amazing things:

Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court justice

Ray Dolby, engineer and inventor of the Dolby noise-reduction system

Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Jeffrey Gettleman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Reid Hoffman, entrepreneur and investor (co-founder of LinkedIn)

Terri Sewell, U.S. Representative (AL)

Roger Y. Tsien, chemist and Nobel laureate

and

Will Bailey, fictional White House staffer

Will you be following in their footsteps?

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Happy Rhodes-day!

On July 1, 1899, mining magnate Cecil Rhodes wrote a will that provided for the creation of the Rhodes Scholarship after his death. Check out some of the people who have won Rhodes Scholarships and have gone on to do amazing things:

Cory Booker, U.S. Senator (NJ)

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Walmart Foundation

Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States

John Eccles, Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist

Barton Gellman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Edwin Hubble, astronomer

Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana

Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Kris Kristofferson, musician

Alain LeRoy Locke, philosopher, educator, writer and “architect of the Harlem Renaissance”

Rachel Maddow, TV host

Terrence Malick, director and screenwriter

Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician and author

Susan Rice, U.S. National Security Advisor, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

Annette Salmeen, Olympic gold medalist (1996)

David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

A. Michael Spence, Nobel Prize-winning economist

Bonnie St. John, U.S. Paralympian ski racer and writer

Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate of the United States

Check out the Rhodes Scholar tag for more! Will you be next?

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Happy Fathers' Day

Happy Fathers' Day to fathers who set an example for their children by studying abroad!

Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton

Seretse Khama and Ian Khama

Preston King and Oona King

Prince Mahidol Adulyadej and Rama IX of Thailand

King Hussein, King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan

A. Bartlett Giamatti and Paul Giamatti

Got any other suggestions for people who should be added to next year's list?

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How many languages can you speak?

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People Who Studied Abroad #757: Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist (pictured, on the far right)

From: United States

Studied: In 1976, while pursuing his PhD in economics at MIT, he was part of a group of graduate students sent to work for the Central Bank of Portugal.

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Too many times we stand aside And let the waters slip away 'Til what we put off 'til tomorrow Has now become today So don't you sit upon the shoreline And say you're satisfied Choose to chance the rapids And dare to dance the tide.

"The River", Garth Brooks

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People Who Studied Abroad #756: Hamid Karzai, 12th President of Afghanistan

From: Afghanistan

Studied: He studied in India as an exchange student after graduating from high school, then did his master's degree in International Relations and Political Science at Himachal Pradesh University.

[thanks to qbqrat for the tip!]

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