After going to a new city each week, avoiding tap water for months, trying to study while planning my next adventure using only Wikitravel and living on a ship in the middle of the ocean, my semester...

By Kaeli Van Cott STAFF WRITER For a long time, I’ve dreamed of visiting India and seeing the Taj Mahal and I am so grateful to have had the chance to do that this semester. The Taj is as amazing...

By Kaeli Van Cott STAFF WRITER Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is a country I legitimately knew nothing about before studying abroad, but it has easily become one of my favorite places. It’s...

By Kaeli Van Cott STAFF WRITER Regrettably, all I really knew about Vietnam before I went there was from learning about the Vietnam War. I barely knew anything about the culture, structure of the country...

By Kaeli Van Cott STAFF WRITER Before going to China, I had preconceived notions about what it would be like based on what I’ve read about or seen in movies. I knew ahead of time that social...

By Kaeli Van Cott STAFF WRITER Japanese culture is rooted in tradition and what ancestors started centuries before, and yet, it is modern and expanding in technology and innovation. The hybrid of tradition...

By Kaeli Van Cott STAFF WRITER Semester at Sea is a very open and giving community, and if you ask any person on board for help with something, they always seem to say yes. I decided on a whim to approach...

By Kaeli Van Cott STAFF WRITER    Over the course of this semester, I’ve been away from Hofstra studying abroad as a global journalism scholar with Semester at Sea, an academic program...