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Tweet Summer is a time rife with possibilities. Three long months of freedom from the school year yawn before us, beckoning for us to do something besides watch reality TV. [more...]

Tweet Studying abroad is synonymous with learning experience, both in and out of the classroom. Throughout the novels of “Don Quijote de la Mancha,” whose author Miguel de Cervantes was [more...]

Tweet I don’t drink, I don’t smoke and I don’t stay out late. More than once in my life people have noticed my rather ascetic life and asked (or told) [more...]

Tweet I’ve been away from CSU for almost three months and something is missing. Just like in Fort Collins, I walk to school every day past the city plaza and [more...]

Tweet What is an American? Living in Spain has taught me a lot about my national identity and the contrasting nature of a “typical” American abroad. Americans, according to the [more...]

Tweet Spongebob Squarepants and a matador prance around Madrid’s main plaza. No, this is not the beginning of a bad joke. Street performers earn coins in exchange for pictures of [more...]

Tweet I always know it is time for a new semester to begin because my family gives me three times more daily hugs than normal. This time, it was more [more...]

Tweet Unlike most Americans, I understand why the rest of the world loves soccer so much. Watching the Euro 2012 has made me realize that it’s not so much about [more...]

Spain

A study abroad attitude for summer

YOLO isn’t dead

Barcelona vs Real Madrid: more than just a game

Never mind, I’m not converting to Catholicism

Why proselytizers don’t have to be silent and we don’t have to listen?

‘Mericans: An international paradox

Pigeons and poverty: A new perspective

Why Euro 2012 should make Americans love soccer