After three months of trekking back and forth between Arlanda Airport and Stockholm every Friday and Sunday, constantly unpacking and re-packing my carry on bag, and playing a game of mental catch-up with every new city I visit, I’m finally done with all of my traveling until the end of the semester. In these last…

Over the course of the semester, there are two trips that DIS students go on with their core course class. There’s a short study tour at the beginning of September and, a personal highlight of the entire program, there is a long study tour at either the beginning or end of October. For Forensic Psychology…

This past weekend I traveled outside of Sweden for the first time since arriving exactly four weeks prior. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I had a lot of nervous energy around planning weekend trips and what role that would play in my study abroad life. Obviously, traveling is a huge aspect of studying…

It’s hard to decide which living situation is best for you when studying abroad because the choice can really feel like a make or break decision for your whole experience. Living in a residential community always seemed like the best option for me because I love being surrounded by people all the time and it…

The majority of students at colleges and universities in the United States choose to study abroad in Europe, and there’s one reason for that: the ease and ability to travel to other European countries on a budget. It’s ridiculously tempting to fill every weekend with a new cobblestone-paved city, attempting to distinguish between the places…

I’ve been in Stockholm for ten days now, so that’s ten days of walking through nearly every street in our neighborhood, ten days of commuting back and forth on the train, ten days of trying to constantly remind myself that the experiences I’m having won’t last forever. This city is disarmingly similar to cities in…