Student Impact Reports

Italy will always inspire my curiosity and appreciation for people different than me

Food and food production are a means of uniting people and culture.

Four cities, ten days, twenty friends, and one beautiful Italia!

“Time is an ingredient”

"You can’t be afraid to put yourself out there and make mistakes, because in the end you learn from them, and it makes you more successful than if you had just sat back in fear.”

What a country!

I will never forget about this trip because I got to meet so many amazing people. Many of them have affected the way I see things. I have learned the importance of learning more languages and also the importance of higher education.

Nothing worth having comes easy

The real beauty of Italy can only be appreciated by visiting my homeland, speaking with the locals, and experiencing the history by walking the streets and through the doors in buildings from long before the beginning of US history.

It's amazing the independence and resourcefulness that can be developed through traveling.

Meeting executives from the largest meat companies in the world at the European “Capital of Meat”. Touring the cavernous aging rooms of the famed prosciutto di Parma. Walking through the centuries old streets of Ljubljana going from one artisanal butcher to the next. Come inside my travelogue and join me as I share the highlights of my summer, destination by destination.

Being a college student these days really requires you to break out of your comfort zone...

I’ve learned that traveling is the best way to grow as a person. The different cultures, people, language and environment allow one to step outside their comfort zone and really explore every opportunity.

After months and months of waiting for this trip to come, it was finally here!

If you are given to choice to travel abroad, I would highly recommend it because there are experiences you cannot learn in the classroom that will prepare you for the working world and the rest of your life.

It was definitely the trip of a lifetime, and an absolutely incredible experience. Our stories of our trip have yet to end!!

After a seven hour plane ride, a two hour layover in Belgium, an hour and a half plane ride to Milan, and a three hour bus ride from Milan to Bologna, we finally arrived in Bologna...