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A Personal View of US-Egyptian Relations
I hope you’ll forgive my lack of posts, dear reader; it’s a fantastically busy time to be someone studying Middle Eastern politics and policy, so classes and outside commitments have been intense in...
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Study Abroad Options
As I have previously mentioned, I shall be studying abroad this summer! (And if my frequency in posts regarding this has failed to imply, I am super excited for this!) It may still be too early for a...
View ArticleContinuation of Study Abroad Options
As promised, I am continuing my explanation of Rice study abroad procedures! I understand that y’all may only have vague ideas about where you want to study overseas (or even if you actually do!), but...
View Article“Welcome to Rice. Now go away!”
While that might normally sound like a rude greeting, that’s how Rice’s International Programs office eagerly greets new students in the hope of turning all owls into internationally experienced...
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Summer Studies
The Duomo (Cathedral) in Florence. I literally walked by this each day on my way to class. Welcome back to the Owl Admission Blog! As most of y’all could have surmised, I (along with the other...
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Global Urban Lab!
It's a bird...It's a plane...It's Global Urban Lab! Recently, posters like the one above have been cropping up around campus. What exactly is Global Urban Lab, you might ask? It certainly is not the...
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My Summer in Japan
This is a guest post written by Lisa Chiba, a junior Chemical Engineering major who did research in Japan over the summer. While watching everyone travel to foreign exotic countries to study abroad,...
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Going Abroad, and the You that Comes Home
This summer, while my friends worked internships and went on family vacations, I decided to spend more time doing one my favorite things: more school! I spent 6 weeks studying German in Berlin, on a...
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Hello from the other side of the world!
As the title of this blog suggests, I am currently on the other side of the world. Guess where? One of the smaller but developed countries in the entire world, formerly a British colony but now the...
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Coming to Ground: Reorientation of a Post-Abroad Owl
Allow me to preface by saying that returning to Rice has been awesome. Abroad was a whirlwind of new experiences which I am sure to cherish for years to come, but now I am finally back in Houston with...
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Learning a Foreign Language at Rice
One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had at Rice is learning a new language. I already speak English and Spanish, but I’ve wanted to learn French for a long time. My high school was pretty small,...
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Learning About Culture: Rice in Korea, a Study Abroad Experience
Author: Leilani C., ’21 On May 18, 2019, eleven students landed in Seoul, South Korea for the Rice in Korea (RIK) program, a 6-week immersion study abroad experience in the capital. While some students...
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