{"id":2911,"date":"2015-03-12T16:58:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2015-03-12T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T00:00:17","slug":"the-value-of-studying-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/2015\/03\/12\/the-value-of-studying-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"The value of studying abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Allison Scallon, right, with Olivia Gonzales at a viewpoint overlooking the Dolomites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Studying abroad means gaining insights about yourself as well as about other cultures, two Oregon State University design seniors said after spending fall term 2014 in Florence, Italy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned I was more independent than I thought,\u201d said Allison Scallon, an apparel design and merchandising management major who studied at Accademia Italiana, an international fine arts university.<\/p>\n

Scallon was one of nine OSU students at AI last fall, a group that also included apparel design major Haley Lillybridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t be the thing that limits you from doing what you want,\u201d Lillybridge said. \u201cThere are plenty of other limitations \u2013 don\u2019t let yourself be one of them. Get yourself out of your comfort zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lillybridge and Scallon were among seven students who took part in a panel discussion in January aimed at encouraging others to study abroad. The panel also included Aaron LaVigne, who studied in Denmark; Cristina Juarez-Hernandez (Thailand); Elyse Hathaway (Germany); Fiona Bai (Spain); Arseniy Goldberg (Czech Republic) and Phung Mach (South Korea).<\/p>\n

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Haley Lillybridge, with the ruins of Pompeii in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Lillybridge, Accademia Italia fulfilled a five-year-old aspiration that originated with an 11-day tour to Switzerland, Italy and France that she took while a junior in high school in Bremerton, Wash.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just a quick view of everything, and Florence was my favorite city,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to come back; I always had that goal to live abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n

She took five courses in Italy \u2013 history of 20th<\/sup> century fashion, history of Tuscany, advanced Italian, graphic design, and screen printing \u2013 and visited 11 countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a cold-weather person, so I went north and west,\u201d said Lillybridge, who\u2019s the president of the OSU snowboarding club, C.ORE Freeride, and aspires to a career in the technical design of winter outerwear.<\/p>\n

Scallon\u2019s interests, meanwhile, lie in surfwear product development \u2013 she\u2019s from Burbank, Calif. \u2013 and she also had five classes in Florence: photographing Florence, fashion illustration, Italian, collections, and history of fashion.<\/p>\n

Her photography class included stops at places such as the home of Michelangelo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a museum pass that allowed us to go to basically any museum in Florence,\u201d said Scallon, who two months after returning still thinks about her trip every day.<\/p>\n

She advises students considering going abroad to \u201cjust do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t have fear,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019ll learn a lot about yourself. The world is big but not that big \u2013 I met an OSU alum in Amsterdam.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information about studying overseas, visit http:\/\/business.oregonstate.edu\/international-opportunities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lillybridge took this photo from the Great Tower in San Gimignano, Tuscany.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Studying abroad means gaining insights about yourself as well as about other cultures, two Oregon State University design seniors said after spending fall term 2014 in Florence, Italy. \u201cI learned I was more independent than I thought,\u201d said Allison Scallon, an apparel design and merchandising management major who studied at Accademia Italiana, an international fine … <\/p>\n

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