Leaving home for college can be tough. Add traveling abroad to the mix, and things get even trickier.<\/p>\n
But according to three students at the College of Business, fearlessness is the key to success in international studies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people decide to study abroad they get a little scared,\u201d said undergraduate international business major Nicole Acosta. \u201cAs you meet more people, stereotypes are broken and walls come down, and you realize how alike you are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Acosta and fellow international students Cecilia Hernandez and Nadia Malouli will guide fellow students through the ups and downs of studying abroad at a panel discussion, taking place Thursday, November 20 from 2-3 p.m. in GC 316. The panel is sponsored by the Office of Global Learning and the College of Business\u2019 Office of International Affairs and Projects. It is part of a dozen activities scheduled for Florida International University\u2019s (FIU) International Education Week, which runs through Friday, November 21.<\/p>\n
Researching options is key to success. <\/em><\/p>\n Their best advice for fellow international students, as well as those looking to study abroad: don\u2019t be afraid to talk to people, get involved, and do your research.<\/p>\n Even though she was familiar with FIU professors from classes they taught at Santo Domingo\u2019s Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), taking a class at FIU\u2019s Miami campus felt different to Acosta.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the Dominican Republic, classes are really small and the teaching methods are more personal,\u201d she said. \u201cHere, it\u2019s more independent. Since it\u2019s a big class you don\u2019t have that one-on-one experience.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s not that classes are a lot harder, said Hernandez, fellow panelist and graduate student from Uruguay who expects to graduate in the spring with a Master of International Business.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s intense here,\u201d said Hernandez, 30. \u201cYou have to be open-minded.\u201d Her advice: talk to everyone you can. \u201cI met a classmate from Brazil and he really helped me a lot on a paper on that I needed to submit for class,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Added Malouli, a Master of International Business student from France: \u201cYou have to open your mind to every culture and every different way of working.\u201d<\/p>\n In spite of the challenges, panelists agree: studying abroad is an experience that shouldn\u2019t be missed.<\/p>\n \u201cIn my business school in France, almost all the students go abroad for at least a semester or for a one year exchange program,\u201d said Malouli, who hosted international students in France. \u201cEven though it could be challenging sometimes, everyone I knew loved the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leaving home for college can be tough. Add traveling abroad to the mix, and things get even trickier. But according to three students at the College of Business, fearlessness is the key to success in international studies. \u201cWhen people decide to study abroad they get a little scared,\u201d said undergraduate international business major Nicole Acosta. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":24550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3440,3442,3443,3441,3444,3445],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36243,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549\/revisions\/36243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}