I Promise I'm Still a Student
Putting the "study" in "Study Abroad" If you're a consistent checker of my mom's Facebook, you may have noticed an absence of large trips the last few weeks. While Purdue (my home institution) started their first weeks of school, I started my first round of midterms. Note: Exams take on a difference appearance here at UniNorte. Goodbye to hyperventilating over an 80 question exam over one hour with less than a minute for each question! Hello to hyperventilating over a 4 question exam worth 30% of your grade!! Cultural exchange is such a reminder of universal commonalities. In the end, we are all similar. Exams still suck. However, I got up to a few exciting things in-between pretending to understand my chicken-scratch notes in Spanish. (Realization: with my newly acquired Spanish knowledge and a long sit-down on google translate, it has come to my attention that I understood nothing from the first two weeks of lectures in Spanish. Maybe understoo
