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Selected students on ACM off-campus study programs act as Global Ambassadors, blogging about their time studying off-campus.  Take a look to learn more about the ACM student experience!

Botswana: University Immersion in Southern Africa See all profiles »


Brazil: Semester Exchange Programs See all profiles »


Chicago Programs: Business, Entrepreneurship, & Society See all profiles »


Chicago Programs: Chicago Arts See all profiles »


Chicago Programs: Urban Studies See all profiles »


Costa Rica: Field Research in the Environment, Social Sciences, & Humanities See all profiles »


Costa Rica: Language, Society, & the Environment See all profiles »


Florence: Arts, Humanities, & Culture See all profiles »


India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization See all profiles »


Japan Study See all profiles »


London & Florence: Arts in Context See all profiles »


Mexico Summer Program: Service Learning & Language Immersion See all profiles »


Newberry Seminar: Research in the Humanities See all profiles »


Oak Ridge Science Semester See all profiles »


Tanzania: Ecology & Human Origins See all profiles »


These student blogs are intended to provide insight into life as a student on an ACM off-campus study program. The opinions expressed by the students on their blogs are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. ACM is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information supplied by these student blogs.

Off-campus study

Recent blog posts

Host Family!
By Amy Click, 9/2/2010
I moved in with my host family yesterday! By family, I really mean one person. She lives in such a nice area of town, the cab wasn't even allowed…
Bartering at the Markets
By Dana, 9/2/2010
This week I visited Kariakoo, an enormous market close to downtown Dar that sells everything under the sun. It was recommended to me by my Kiswahili…
First Week of Classes
By (author unknown), 9/2/2010
Firstly, apologies for any spelling errors in any of the previous posts.  Checking grammar errors isn’t high on my priority list of things to do in…
Makumbusho! ... No wait, Mango Garden
By Caleb, 9/2/2010
I have a brief window of time between lunch and research methods to tell the story so here I go. For the first week in Dar, we did mostly nothing but…
pictures from last weekend
By Linnea, 9/1/2010
weekend #2
By Linnea, 9/1/2010
The weekend started with three of us girls getting our hair braided at a little hair salon near campus. It took nearly 3 hours, and we each had…
Week 2
By Kim, 9/1/2010
Well, the whole "WOW, I'm in Costa Rica!" feeling of shock has sort of worn off starting at the beginning of this week, so it has been a tough…

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