I'm currently typing this post at a marine biology research station in Willemstad, Curaçao. Since the station is located in front of the beach, temperatures here stay consistently warm from the ocean breeze but don't get as humid as Florida. This is the perfect summer weather. However, I didn't come here to tan in the [...]
Curaçao?! What's that? Hello everyone! My name is Alexandria Noumena (Bishop) and I am going into my senior year at the University of South Florida with a bang! My major is in Marine Biology so of course I jumped at the opportunity to attend a Caribbean Marine Conservation course in Curaçao. Curaçao, also known as [...]
Hi everyone! My name is Wei. I'm a third-year undergraduate at USF majoring in Environmental Science & Policy with a minor in Political Science. With the help of the USF Federal Credit Union Scholarship, I will be traveling to Curaçao this summer for 10 days to study coral reef ecology. It has always been my [...]
Hello Going Places Bloggers, my name is Lauren Prisco and I am a Freshman in the pre-nursing program here at USF. I studied abroad this past summer through the ACE program to Ecuador while taking the Biological Principles for Non-majors course. For those of you not familiar to the ACE program (which stands for Academic [...]
After the initial high of being bombarded with new stimuli in my study abroad home country, I started to feel isolated. My work plan was going well but going home each day without contact with my regular community was saddening. Being self-aware and understanding these feelings made me more deliberate in my actions to [...]
