Focusing on international postgraduate students who travelled to England to study, this research shows that moving away from their home country gave students the opportunity to explore themselves away from cultural and familial expectations and norms. The study also found that living and studying abroad allowed students to improve their cross-cultural communication skills - a valuable asset in the workplace, where you may be working with different teams from all over the world.
This study found students claimed that they learned to make decisions and became more open-minded as a direct result of study abroad. The study linked this higher level of independent decision making to greater academic focusing and more appreciation of the value of education, which resulted in students being more academically engaged after studying abroad. Essentially, this suggests that studying abroad makes you a better student. The research indicates that after studying abroad you are likely to value your education more and make better decisions surrounding it - including course selection and potentially even deciding your major.
Listening to his perspective on life, observing how happy he was day to day, and recognizing that he truly enjoyed life and what he was doing was very inspiring and helped me reflect further on my own life and what I was missing. Morapedi at Hobbiton during our North Island roadtrip we took after we finished our semester.
My plan to become a doctor was appealing because I assumed I would be happy with my life when I started practicing, but the steps to becoming a doctor would be an unhappy, unenthusiastic journey. It may be hard, tiring, emotional, and otherwise self defining, but you have to truly enjoy each moment you live and appreciate what you get to do. Life is random, unpredictable, and too short to give up things that make us enjoy every day we have. But I have now changed my focus from applying to medical school to applying to graduate school.
What I am studying now and the effects of the research that I will conduct over my career could potentially help hundreds and thousands of people, more people than if I were to become a doctor. I am contributing to the progress of The Human Condition now, rather than in ten or more years, and I am waking up every day happy and motivated to learn.
I can accredit a career path change, a change of personal perspectives and priorities, and a happier life because of my study abroad experience. Resetting your password is easy. Just type in the email address you used to register to IFSA.
To be happy you have to enjoy the journey to whatever you are aspiring to be. Even the most ordinary things about your country and how you lived, things you never gave a second thought about might be so fascinating for your friends abroad. Life abroad is also often a crash course on everything you took for granted back home, the smallest everyday things like getting lost on your way home will make you realise how easy things were back home. Ultimately, all of this will make you appreciate where you come from a little bit more.
The process of figuring out life abroad is a journey filled with self-discovery. You are free from your everyday responsibilities, distractions and expectations from back home. No one knows your name, no one expects you to live up to a certain standard- you are free from your cultural and familial expectations and norms. You are free to be your own person and discover yourself. If you decide to take each day as an opportunity to be proactive, you may find yourself doing things you would have never in a million years thought about doing back home or on your own time.
But now, you are free to pursue what interests you. You may be surprised to know that some of your interests have changed, or to discover an interest in something you never thought about before.
Taking bits and pieces of the behaviours and philosophies from the people around you who are of different cultural backgrounds and upbringings can help solidify you as a person.
We will be more than happy to guide you towards the right course and your dream university. Email: info. View all blogs. Studying abroad in college is an experience I encourage every student to take advantage of. About the author.
0コメント