On Thursday, February 18, I attended Study Abroad Fair hosted at Baruch, in Newman Vertical Campus Gym. Representatives from different universities across the Europe, Asia and Latin America were offering their academic programs. At first I went to see information about Zurich University of Applied Science in Switzerland. I met a guy who went there for one semester and he was fascinated about it. He really liked the city and enjoyed staying there. He also said that studying there is not easy, no one makes you feel obliged to study and professors are not really inclined to help students during the semester. Then I moved to another table, where there were University of Amsterdam representatives. They have really good programs to offer for students interested in Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Apart from exchange programs there were language learning programs, as one offered in small town Salamanca, located in Spain. Two Baruch students who participated in that program told me about their experience. They lived in Spanish family, where no one spoke English. One of the girls did not know Spanish when she arrived there, so in one month living in this family she began to understand everything and even speaking.

All in all, every program was very interesting in its own unique way. I am considering participating in exchange programs, maybe for one full year, so Study Abroad Fair was very exciting and informative to attend.