Last January Alex brought up the idea of studying abroad in Australia and New Zealand. He always wanted to be a marine biologist so I thought that would be the perfect opportunity for him. By February or March he found out he was accepted to his program. During this process for him, I thought maybe I should also look into maybe studying abroad. I looked on the Gustavus website and found a program that had psychology, biology, and pre-medicine classes all in one. So I looked into it and I met with the study abroad advisor at Gustavus; he along with every professor and faculty member I talked with encouraged me to apply and see what happens. In early March I did exactly that and by April I found out my decision. I'm assuming you can guess what that decision was otherwise I wouldn't be writing this right now. For the program I had chosen there were, however, multiple stages of being accepted. I first was accepted by Gustavus in April and then I had to await the decision of the program provider, DIS. I got this decision in late May and that was finally when the ball started rolling. The whole end of the spring semester was a stressful waiting game to see if I would actually be going with this program. This stress mixed with final exam stress, moving out for the year, and Katie leaving :( definitely kept me busy. Overall the communication between Gustavus, DIS, and myself was very easy and I was able to get many of my questions answered which I know other programs are not as responsive which was really helpful.
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