Activities: Language Difficulties

Three months into her Student Exchange Program at Bocconi University (Italy), Robyn Strauss reflects on her few successes and challenges staring her student life in Milan, Italy!

Madison Doran is an exchange student at EM Strasbourg Business School in Strasbourg, France. She gives advice on how to overcome anxiety and the stress when traveling to a new country. Read her tips on how to assimilate into a new culture and country!

Cailey O'Connell shares her first few days in Strasbourg, France as an Student Exchange participant in EM Strasbourg Business School and how she navigated cultural differences and similarities. Her experience an be summed up in this comment: "I was most afraid that I wouldn’t like being away for a whole semester from Ohio State and Columbus, but I was definitely wrong!"

Your not alone of feeling that the process to travel several miles away to start life in a new country daunting. Madison Kelly felt exactly that way, but through trial and error, living in the dorms, participating in a Italian crash course at Bocconi University, staying positive and keep trying, she have found footing to call her new city her home.