<p>I went to Junior semester abroad (studying TV-RADIO) and came home with a British husband. It was the most wonderful experience (not just socially) and I never thought the same again about my place in the world. It humbles one to see the news and world is far bigger than our US myopic view. Everyone here denigrates the various views from elsewhere, but they’re as valid and sometimes make far more sense than ours.
Enjoy the experience!</p>
<p>congratulations on oxford, and it sounds like you are at a good school doing very well for yourself. as I said in another post, a good nurse from a state school is much better than a bad nurse from an Ivy league, and that is how I view professions. You will become whatever you become because of your drive, involvement and ability, not necessarily your alma mater. when you are 50 and very successful, people won’t really ask where you went to school, or your gpa. they will see the person you are. also, on the making of friends in college, there seems to have been many posts on this board about that difficulty, including my own son. I never made friend one at my college, I was there to become a nurse and truly didn’t socialize at all. I am an excellent nurse, and that is what people see. I went to a state school. The villanova grad next to me is a terrible nurse, she needs to walk away from the profession. It’s truly what you take from your education, and what you do with it.</p>
<p>Wolford–you are going to have a great year at Oxford! And you already have connections there–how cool is that! Very exciting.</p>