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Peer into Michael’s month of reflection after his study abroad experience in Switzerland in the Fall of 2022.
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Architecture major, Michael Tan ’23, shares his reflections about his experience studying abroad in Zurich, Switzerland.
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And a lot of the things I need — to be surrounded by queer culture, activism, people who will grin about cutting logs by pulling a chainsaw back and forth — can be found anywhere, and everywhere. I just need to keep my eyes open.
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When I arrived in Cheema, Punjab, for a second, I felt like I was in a dream. I had never been to a town like Cheema. Actually, I don’t think ‘town’ is the right word – it was exactly what I imagined as a village. It is one of the most rural environments I’ve been to, and…
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Sometimes, I forget about gender. It’s not as if I see gender as a strict binary with two absolutes or believe gender to be anything less than a complex and self-defined term unique to each person. It’s more that I often exist in a sort of genderless bubble in my own head. I do typically…
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I’ve always been afraid of living in places where I can’t communicate with the locals. As a result, I didn’t pursue opportunities with MISTI in locations without English or Chinese speakers. However, this summer, I studied abroad at Bard College Berlin’s theater intensive, which finally took me away from the United States for the first…
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I’m new to Copenhagen, but half of my company is too, and fortunately, we’ve got plenty of advice on how to get by. A coworker of mine, a fellow expat from a different English-speaking country, bought a bike he later learned was stolen. “Should I turn it in?” he asked. “Maybe in winter,” said…
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London is enormous – it’s probably the biggest city I have ever lived in. Despite that, it is very well connected with public transportation. The opening of the new Elizabeth line in time for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations makes the city more accessible than ever. It is considered normal to have a 40-minute to an…
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The first time I heard this, I had no idea what it meant, and I was almost offended. I asked the girl I was talking to, a student at the college where I was working, “What is an NRI?” “Oh, it just means non-resident Indian.” It took me a good minute to process that. I…
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