{"id":1938,"date":"2023-08-30T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2023-11-15T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:54:27","slug":"study-abroad-why-should-you-study-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/08\/30\/study-abroad-why-should-you-study-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Study abroad: Why should you study abroad?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor Wolters discusses some ideas for persuading parents to let students study abroad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Do I Get My Dad to Let Me Study Abroad?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yUz_lJqvcNM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of my 3 kids, now adults, studied abroad. One studied Russian at St. Petersburg State University (was required for her major), and the other studied microbiology at Cardiff University for a full year. At the time, she was pre-med and a study abroad was an important criteria for applying to med school. (She later went in a different direction, earning a BS in microbiology, a BS in cell biology and genetics, a BS in geology, an MS in geochemistry, and is now pursuing an MS in data analysis\/data science while working full time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a parent who was globally naive, I did not understand the need for study abroad &#8211; it just seemed like a big expense to me, who hadn&#8217;t traveled internationally (mostly). Since I began putting this blog together, I now understand the importance of study abroad and regret not being more enthusiastic about their study abroad programs. I was naive and did not then understand, owing to my lack of international experience. I regret that when they were abroad, we never traveled to visit them &#8211; it would have been good for them but especially good for us to have had that experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our middle child did travel to Switzerland and a few other countries, to visit his girlfriend (now wife) who was studying abroad in Europe. He has also since done international travel for work (he has a Ph.D. in materials science and works for a global science company) and has mentioned that at some point when the kids are older, he might have the opportunity to work abroad. Today I would say &#8220;go for it&#8221; &#8211; the experience would be incredibly valuable to everyone if all the details can work out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should you study abroad? (Yes). How do you persuade parents to make that possible? Professor Wolters has some thoughts on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-study-intern-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}