{"id":35,"date":"2002-09-07T09:19:59","date_gmt":"2002-09-07T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/?p=35"},"modified":"2021-01-11T19:58:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:58:14","slug":"applied-math-major-reczkowski-spends-a-semester-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/2002\/09\/07\/applied-math-major-reczkowski-spends-a-semester-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Applied Math Major Reczkowski Spends a Semester Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/10\/alexreczkowski.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36  alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/10\/alexreczkowski-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Senior Applied Mathematics major Alex Reczkowski returned to campus this fall after spending the spring semester abroad. Alex spent a semester in Budapest, Hungary, with America&#8217;s top undergraduate mathematics students. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/depts\/math\/budapest\">Budapest Semesters in Mathematics<\/a> program is organized through St. Olaf College.<\/p>\n<p>In Alex&#8217;s words:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grab up the best undergraduate mathematics students, fly them to a great eastern European city, teach them enough Hungarian so they can get some <em>narancsle<\/em> (orange juice) and <em>palacsinta<\/em> (crepes), then throw them to some of the world&#8217;s greatest mathematical minds, and success becomes virtually inevitable. As an applied mathematics major I was challenged with finding a study abroad program that provided optimal higher-level mathematics courses. Budapest Semesters in Mathematics was the beautiful solution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was part of a lucky group of about 60 students who battled through everything from getting a residence permit in Hungary with minimal Hungarian language skills to making an American Thanksgiving dinner in a foreign country. The program was simply amazing in that it showed all of us the great diversity in mathematicians. Not only was mathematical talent at its pinnacle, but extra-curricular activities were astoundingly diversified, with everyone running around Budapest enjoying everything from shows at the Operahouse to ultimate frisbee on Margit Island. I couldn&#8217;t have been luckier. We formed a really great family, and together we not only made Budapest our home, we learned some math while doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Applied Mathematics major Alex Reczkowski returned to campus this fall after spending the spring semester abroad. Alex spent a semester in Budapest, Hungary, with America&#8217;s top undergraduate mathematics students. The Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program is organized through St. Olaf College. In Alex&#8217;s words: &#8220;Grab up the best undergraduate mathematics students, fly them to a great eastern European city, teach them enough Hungarian so they can get some narancsle (orange juice) and palacsinta (crepes), then throw them to some of the world&#8217;s greatest mathematical minds, and success becomes virtually inevitable. As an applied mathematics major I was challenged with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,61],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-semester","tag-hungary","tag-reczkowski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}