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“Now I have travel fever,” says 21-year-old Amy Collins, a junior majoring in Business Management who spent last summer studying abroad in England.
As a young girl, Amy had taken a school-sponsored trip to Washington, D.C. and had spent family vacations in Florida, but had never ventured too far from LaFayette, her childhood home.
“I’m pretty much a Daddy’s girl,” she says, noting that her father had a hard time watching her travel so far from home. “He never really wanted me to leave Georgia.”
But the chance to spend five weeks in a foreign country, earning six hours of college credit while touring the “old world,” was too appealing to pass up.
One of Amy’s economics professors presented a video about Summer Study Abroad to during one of Amy’s accounting classes. “That’s when I knew that I really wanted to go,” she recalls. “So I worked three jobs for the next few months: one to help with the bills, and two other jobs to earn money for the trip.”
While working three jobs, Amy was enrolled full time at DSC. She applied for and received three scholarships, including a DSC Foundation Study Abroad Scholarship, totaling $3,000. The awards helped her finance the $3,950 program cost.
During her summer in England, Amy benefited from weekend trips to Ireland, Scotland and France, and developed a strong yearning for English “twiglets,” which, she says, “taste like a burnt pretzel, but you really develop a taste for them.”
“Going to Europe as a Study Abroad Student is the best way to go,” she says. “Not only do you get to see all the places you’ve always wanted to see, but you are learning along the way and getting college credit. It was a great experience.”
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