As the barista handed me my midday caffé (which is not served in a large coffee cup, but rather in a small espresso glass), I took out my European money and was ready to pay. He raised his two hands to his chest,…

We caught up with AIFS Study Abroad alumni, Daniel and Liz, who met each other during the Spring 2018 semester in Berlin, Germany. They’ve been together since the May of…

Do you want to study abroad? Haven’t had time to do so yet? Studying abroad in the summer is the perfect solution. Summer is an appealing time for students to…

5 hours ahead of home. I thought sleeping on the plane and waking up in London was going to help me surpass the whole “jet lag” thing. I thought, I’ve…

Despite how much I love traveling—experiencing new places, food, people, culture, food—it can definitely induce quite a bit of stress. I never realized how much work really must go into…

Making the decision to study abroad can spark a lot of questions — What will my host city be like? How are the classes structured? Where can I find the…

It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and we’re feeling all the feels. Truthfully, nothing makes us feel more feels this time of year than when we hear from our alumni about how…

Although there are a lot of awesome scholarship opportunities available for studying abroad, we’re all students and mostly likely find ourselves on some sort of budget. Throughout my first month…

The following post was contributed by Katya Agamy, a Diversity Abroad scholarship winner from Loyola University of New Orleans who is spending her spring semester studying abroad with AIFS in…

A college student exists in an odd in-between stage in life. You’re no longer a child living at home, but most are still bound to our parents since we haven’t…