Word: abroader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best thing about being abroad is that it has made me appreciate Harvard so much more," says Alexandra V. Schmitz '00, who is currently in Paris for the semester. "It is nice to take a break from everything because I know that I will get back to enjoy my senior year and take advantage of all of the things that we often take for granted at Harvard...
Despite worries about being "passed over," a far greater concern voiced by nearly all of the students interviewed was the potential for being estranged from close friends or the Harvard community at large. They find the time abroad is yet another fight to develop networks of friends--like being a first-year all over again...
Students studying in foreign cities say that adjusting to the social atmosphere abroad can demand an effort beyond that required by the close-knit community of American schools. Students at foreign schools are generally more independent of their Universities, socializing with friends they made before college...
...some students say these challenges opened their eyes to social opportunities that they wouldn't have found in Cambridge. At Oxford, for example, students in study abroad programs come from schools all over...
Like Hicks, other students agreed that being abroad highlighted some of the downsides of the Harvard community...