#1 Regret in Undergrad

zuzusplace
Tue, 08 May 2007 05:42:04 +0000

live-, some undergrads are actually in the 22 till 55+ phase of their lives with a family and a home, etc and it is nearly impossible to pick up and move to another country for a few months. We still stress over study abroad. The reason being that most grad schools (at least in the Humanities) seem to view it as a deficiency in your app if you haven’t done it. I’d say that’s the number one reason people worry about it. And as to the difficulty of visiting after undergrad, in truth, it’d be easier for me to move my family to another country for a year and do independent research than to be part of study abroad. I wouldn’t have to live where the school said, pay their idea of room and board x 5, etc so we could arrange our accomidations more to suit our needs.