{"id":1034,"date":"2017-09-22T09:09:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2021-01-11T19:56:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:56:13","slug":"studying-across-the-pond-201718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/2017\/09\/22\/studying-across-the-pond-201718\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Agnew:  Post 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Agnew<br \/>\nLondon School of Economics<br \/>\nLondon, England<br \/>\nFall 2017<\/p>\n<p>I am studying at the London School of Economics in the General Course, which is their year-long study abroad program. Given that I have travelled to eight different countries thus far, I have always wanted to study abroad. When it came around time to apply, I focused all my attention to LSE for several reasons. One, I wanted to push myself academically in the fields of economics and finance, and LSE has a strong reputation in those subjects. Second, I didn\u2019t need to learn a new language to live there, which took a lot of pressure off the situation. For those two reasons, I never really looked further than LSE.<br \/>\nI am really excited to get over there. All of my buddies have been in school for 2-3 weeks now, and I feel like I am left out of the fun. So, if nothing else, I am just anxious to have fun. I am also looking forward to meeting new people, which is also where some of my nerves are stemming from. While I am a sociable kid, anytime you go somewhere without knowing anyone, it can be scary. According to kids that have studied at LSE before, they have a good program to integrate the kids in my program including a boat party. I am also excited and nervous about living on my own. It will be nice to have quiet time, but I love to socialize so that is something I am going to have to adjust to.<br \/>\nLastly, I am REALLY looking forward to traveling. I have buddies studying in other countries in Europe, including Germany, Italy, and the Czech Republic. Airfare is quite cheap over here, which encourages me to travel as much as possible. I have plans to go to Oktoberfest one of the first weekends I am there as well as Prague for Thanksgiving. Nonetheless, I am really looking forward to expanding my cultural horizons by traveling to different European countries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1037\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1037\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1037\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Stonehenge-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Stonehenge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stonehenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Agnew London School of Economics London, England Fall 2017 I am studying at the London School of Economics in the General Course, which is their year-long study abroad program. Given that I have travelled to eight different countries thus far, I have always wanted to study abroad. When it came around time to apply, I focused all my attention to LSE for several reasons. One, I wanted to push myself academically in the fields of economics and finance, and LSE has a strong reputation in those subjects. Second, I didn\u2019t need to learn a new language to live there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,2],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-fall","category-academic-year","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}