What Students are Saying
| . . . The Cambridge experience in the summer of 2003 was definitely a most pivotal moment in our lives. During our time at Caius we met some of the best friends of our lives, took some of the best classes we have ever taken, and had some of the best professors (or tutors!) we have ever had, and experienced a feeling we had never felt before that summer. It about killed us when we had to leave on August 15. However, we learned enough about ourselves that summer that returning to England for a longer stay was in our best interests. Patrick Macgill, M.A. Program, Royal Holloway, University of London (undergraduate degree from Towson University, Maryland) and Tom Sebrell, Ph.D. Program, Queen Mary, University of London (undergraduate degree from Virginia Military Institute, M.A. from Virginia Tech) |
I just wanted to let you know some very good news that has to do with my Cambridge trip in two ways. First off I was invited to share my study abroad experience at the Tennessee Consortium for International Studies held in Knoxville on February 6, 2007. This was the inaugural meeting and I served on a panel and shared my adventure and thoughts about why studying abroad is important. The link to the meeting website is http://www.tncis.org. I put in a few good words about the UNH trip! Also, in even better news, after I returned from Cambridge my whole outlook on grad school changed. I looked beyond my small institution here in East Tennessee and I applied to Ohio State, Illinois, Ole Miss and then two programs in the UK, St. Andrews in Scotland and Birmingham in England. Thanks in part to Jan's reference [Jan Golinski, Professor of History at UNH and faculty on the CSP 2006] and my hard work here, I have been accepted to both programs in the UK. The other schools are still evaluating my applications at the time of this writing but I am leaning heavily on St. Andrews. Both UK programs are MA's in Early Modern Europe and the Reformation, right up my alley! Many thanks for taking me along to Cambridge. I think about the trip every day and it has certainly been a huge benefit for my future in grad school. Andy Drinnon, Cambridge Summer 2006, B.A. May 2007 from East Tennessee State University (NOTE: Andy Drinnon is now studying at St. Andrews University, Scotland) |