student travel
For students studying abroad or racking up miles on a summer break, there are many student-friendly cities that you simply must visit.
Historic Sites in Northern Virginia for Student to Travel
Often when student travel groups decide upon Washington D.C. as their destination, the tour leaders have specific sites in mind for a visit. Many of the sites that student travel groups request the most are just outside Washington D.C., in Northern Virginia.
By SHYAM PHAD4 years ago in Wander
The Late Great Rebellion
Pittsburgh had failed me and now there was nothing ahead but the road. Twenty-three years old – petulant, ambitious and discontented. I was a recent graduate of Penn State’s film program which was an incoherence of beadledom and incompetence. We were hobbled by shoddy equipment, bureaucracy and professors whose only goal was to ruin students’ dreams. To diminish their lofty work into lifeless 16mm corpses by forcing them to comply to dogmatic rules of storytelling - or risk failing. I witnessed my fellow student’s projects blanched of all spark while spending their life’s savings. I too was threatened. “If you do it your way, don’t come back to us crying when it doesn’t work.”
By Kevin Rolly4 years ago in Wander
Alone in Europe
Going out on your own is scary for anyone, but going to a different country might be scarier. As my sister went to Europe first as an exchange student, and then by herself, she experienced loneliness. But also she learned new things, and it was an experience she wouldn’t forget.
By Breana Pruett5 years ago in Wander
Tips for Students Going Abroad in the Post-Covid Era
So many aspects of life are different for us now, whether it be that we work from home instead of going into the office everyday, or that we’ve redecorated the whole house as we’ve had so much free time inside when we would usually have been caught up in life. Either way, nothing is as it was before. So how has travel changed for us? And what do we need to bear in mind when finally managing to go on holiday again?
By Angelo Castelda5 years ago in Wander
Cold Feet, Hot Tea. Second Place in Travel Cuisine Challenge. Top Story - July 2021.
We were a small acting troupe from the US that would be touring and performing in the UK for two months as part of college credit. The previous six months had been spent planning, raising funds, acquiring a small bus via friends (which we named Connie), memorizing and rehearsing, and figuring out how to pack the one suitcase we were allowed. Speaking for myself, food had not exactly occurred to me. I didn’t know that I would be introduced to a life-long comfort food.
By Lydia Stewart5 years ago in Wander
Chronicles of a Black Girl in Thailand
It honestly felt like the hottest place on earth. Once the airport doors slid open and I took my first breath of Bangkok smog I was simultaneously choked up by the hot, thick, humidity of the atmosphere, but I loved it. I think I was an island dweller in a past life from the way I’m obsessed with being warm. As someone who grew up in Northeastern Ohio where cancelled school due to lake effect snow was a common occurrence throughout my upbringing, the promise of hot, sunshine filled days, even in the middle of December felt like a blessing to me.
By Janine Walker5 years ago in Wander
San Salvador
San Salvador, The Bahamas—a tiny strip of land southeast of Nassau. There is one road that snakes around the island, one lane each way, encircling the uninhabitable marsh inland. The coastal regions consist mainly of small settlements that at the time totaled a population of less than 1,000. The nearest medical facility is hours away on a different island. Cockburn Town boasts the international airport on the island, but there is only one international flight in and out, a charter plane that flies directly from France to the island specifically for access to the Club Med resort, a relatively new addition at the time of my visit. The only other flights are island hoppers, mostly from Nassau, and the airport reflects that—the nearest bathroom is located in the bar across the street.
By Rachel Hannah Fendrich5 years ago in Wander
Lost and Found in Dharamsala. Top Story - June 2021.
It’s boiling hot when I walk out of the airport. My internal systems are all jumbled up, recalibrating after the end of a spin cycle. It’s dark, it’s 8:30 PM, and it’s a humid 90 degrees. There is noise everywhere: people talking, people shouting, PA announcements, cars honking. My legs are cramped from the thirteen-hour flight and it feels amazing to stand, even if it means lugging around my comically massive suitcase.
By Sarahmarie Specht-Bird5 years ago in Wander
