Ambition is an Attitude.

The Great Wall, 2002 You may recall in Part 1 of this story that I had just arrived to Beijing with an unlikely friend I met hours before on the flight from the USA. I was about to spend my Junior year of College in a foreign land: China. The War in Iraq had started just before I left, and it was a very volatile time to be abroad. The U.S. Department of State had given us a little script to use in difficult situations: “My name is ______, I am an ordinary American citizen an

Everywhere you go you hear people say, “What if no one recognizes the name / quality of a university abroad?” The fear of getting a degree abroad that will not serve your career aspirations at home, is so very real. The unknown is often that way. However, as experts in this area, we are here to open your eyes to a world of top-tier, international higher education that will take you far beyond your competition, both at home and abroad. You are right to wonder what the impl

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One of the challenges of getting a degree abroad, or studying abroad during university, is the fear of going too far beyond your comfort zone. Thorough research and high rankings alone will not settle this fear for you; an international university will always have more unknowns than a local one. So ask yourself, “Do I want an adventure, or not?” I picked my American university, Mount Holyoke College, largely on the basis of its prestige, internationalism, and options for s