Alex planning and organizing to prepare for her time abroad

My name is Alex and my major is Psychology with a minor in Physiology and Neurobiology. I am a junior and am planning on continuing my education at a graduate school for physical therapy. Coming into college I knew I had wanted to study abroad and even after transferring colleges, this has always been a goal of mine. I love to travel and come back with new experiences that I wouldn’t be able to have had elsewhere. I hope to gain new insights into my future career as well as learn about the culture of South Africa. I am currently very excited and thankful to be given the opportunity of a lifetime to experience a new culture for three and a half months. The internship I was offered sounds exactly like what I have been wanting to do for a few years. I feel like this study abroad trip is the perfect mixture of travel, fun, independence, education, and exposure to my dream career. At the moment I am planning and organizing my schedule to ensure that I meet all of the upcoming deadlines along with the aspects of my current schedule. I am really looking forward to enjoying a semester without labs where I can truly learn and grow from the courses. Knowing that I will be studying abroad is definitely the added motivation that I need to get through this semester!