This Is Your Traditional "What should I bring, and not bring, while studying abroad?" Post
R easons for studying abroad can vary from wanting the "prestige" associated with attending a foreign university to desiring an opportunity to expand your worldview. Whatever the reason, while studying abroad, everyone is susceptible to the woes of packing and repacking, as well as the transitional phase into a new culture and the transitional phase out of it. When my final term at Oxford came to an end, me and the rest of my chronically sleep-deprived friends gathered in a small pub to look back on our year in various degrees of embarrassment and amusement. As a collective, we gathered practical lists of things we wished we had done, known, or still wanted to fit into our schedule. Although I was unable to fit everything in before my time in the UK was up, my sentiments regarding what I wished I’d known, or want others to know, before arrival in Oxford have remained, of which I’ve taken to expressing below. 1) Things ...
