EAT PRETZELS ONE DAY, CROISSANTS THE NEXT!

My pitch is to create a site which provides editorials and resources on study abroad opportunities. In my experience, many authors rosily describe studying abroad, while others happily heap on aspersions. Yes, the upfront expenses can get insane, but study in a foreign country confers great benefits. So how could one know wheter to take the plunge? An informed decision looks like a convoluted one. I'd like to help clear up the mess.

But why?

Excellent befuddlement. Allow me to explain!

In your Internet sojourns to discover the purpose of studying abroad, you will find various answers. Let me assemble the most cogent:

You may learn a foreign language. (Dutch is an easy start for English-speakers.) Increasingly, the cognitive, economic, and sociological benefits of learning more than one's mother tongue are being revealed. Study abroad help this by providing immersion, which best facilitates language learning.
You realize that the locals don’t have much duty to accommodate you: you do. Because being in Paris when you don't speak French teaches you humility. Studying abroad is not so much learning of cultures as it is understanding better how you must cooperate with others. Haughtiness evaporates when you need to get directions, or buy breakfast, or talk to a bookstore clerk. All in a foreign language.
You understand the wealth of opportunities available to you. Take for instance research grants and fellowships. Many domestic ones encourage international research by granting more money for flights and accommodations. Fellowships like the German DAAD also permit longer stays in a foreign land. And don’t forget teaching and professional fellowships! Countless programs want native-English speakers to teach English throughout Europe.

But who?

Excellent accusation. Allow me to point fingers! (Not really—this is the team-building part.)

For this kind of project, we would need to divide into the following sub-tasks:

Data gathering from whatever sites we can find
Writing editorials on our favorite far-flung places
Coding a (barely) functional website hosting our content and links

Completing these objectives requires a data-digger, a content writer, and a coder. The content-writing wouldn’t take much, and the greatest time devotion is to cheerful sarcasm. Digging for data should turn up some good resources to distill the most important points. And the coding should be as daunting as it is for many of us in this unit. (Hell yes!)

So, with these points in mind, I invite you to think more deeply about studying abroad. Look through some of the opportunities in the link below.

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