Amid the frenzy that was Hurricane Sandy, I heard that I had been accepted to the study abroad program I had applied to. The news was not a surprise, but it confirmed what had only been hypothetical up to that point—the idea that I was studying abroad.
Submitting the application back in the end of September and eventually receiving an acceptance letter obviously made the abstract idea of going abroad more concrete, but nothing brought home the reality of study abroad more than the talk of registration.
In the past week or so, I’ve started to receive emails from my departments with the details about spring courses and registration appointments have been posted on SSOL. When a friend asked me what seminars I was planning on applying for, I had to remind myself before I could remind her that I wasn’t applying for seminars because I wasn’t going be at Columbia next semester.
