Calling all SIT Study Abroad students and alumni! The time has arrived for our Spring Photo Contest. Please send us your favorite photos from your time abroad with SIT. We want to see what you’ve got—photos with your host family or community, new sites you explored on excursions and site visits, or anything that inspired [...]
Archive | April, 2012
“I Always Had an Interest in Green Energy”
A conversation with SIT alumna Nneka Walker (Birmingham-Southern College) Nneka Walker’s experience studying energy and culture on the SIT Iceland: Renewable Energy, Technology, and Resource Economics program opened new doors academically and personally. Upon arriving in Iceland, Nneka began interacting regularly with Icelanders. “I may have been a stranger, but I did not want to [...]
What Will Studying Abroad With SIT Be Like?
Learn more about the different phases of an SIT Study Abroad semester program. From arriving at the airport to settling into the daily rhythm of life in the host country, SIT students are immersed in the local culture. Some programs offer different components: Be sure to visit individual program pages on the SIT Study Abroad [...]
Experience is Life’s Greatest Teacher
Reflections by SIT Oman alumnus Demic Tipitino Experience is life’s greatest teacher; you get the tests first and the lessons later. Faced with the choice of studying abroad in one of the Middle East’s more popularly known countries, or going to Oman, I relied on my favorite poem, “The Road Less Traveled”, by Robert Frost [...]
SIT Study Abroad Faculty Publishes Field Guide on Butterfly Ecology
Incorporating more than eight years of field research, Dr. Xavier Silva’s latest book, Ecuador’s Butterfly Ecology, seeks to promote the study of butterflies and moths as biological indicators of environmental change. The 216-page book lists the more than 2,700 butterfly species currently found in Ecuador, one of the most ecologically diverse countries in the world. [...]
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