Reverse Culture Shock
Have you ever heard the phrase, “You can never go home again.”? Of course, you may travel to your home country after having been away, but your “home” will not […]
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Have you ever heard the phrase, “You can never go home again.”? Of course, you may travel to your home country after having been away, but your “home” will not […]
Reverse Culture Shock Read More »
You made it all the way to the United States. You made it to a new state, new city, new university campus. You probably used multiple modes of transportation to
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Time. It is a valuable resource that we often feel we are running out of. “If only I had more time!” How often do you find yourself saying or thinking
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What exactly is a credit card it? Contrary to popular belief, credit cards are not free money. You can’t just swipe it to buy that new couch for your apartment
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This week on the Bridges Blog we wanted to get to know you, our reader, a little bit more. So we’ve started by interviewing students involved with Bridges around the
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Traveling through the tangled forest of the American healthcare system can be very tricky, even for Americans. So for international students, it can be well, a foreign experience. But let’s
The American Healthcare System Read More »
Part of the excitement of studying in a different country is the opportunity to meet people from all over the world. You will find that you share many things in
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I am a big practical joker. For many years, my brother and I have had what we affectionately call a “Prank War” declared on one another. The jokes we play
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Holding her hand for the last time, I looked around at all the familiar faces that lined her dimly lit hospital room. “I don’t know what to say,” I told
I hear the best time to prune roses is in the early spring. (To prune is to trim a tree, shrub, or bush by cutting away dead or overgrown branches
Prune (the verb, not the noun) Read More »