{"id":4871,"date":"2018-11-19T09:06:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T20:44:19","slug":"i-originally-wanted-to-study-abroad-but-everyone-says-you-have-your-whole-life-o-travel-and-only-4-years-of-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/11\/19\/i-originally-wanted-to-study-abroad-but-everyone-says-you-have-your-whole-life-o-travel-and-only-4-years-of-college\/","title":{"rendered":"I originally wanted to study abroad but everyone says you have your whole life o travel and only 4 years of college"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4864\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw111918-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4864\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw111918-3-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"I originally wanted to study abroad but everyone says you have your whole life o travel and only 4 years of college. I want to relish in life here -- what do I do?\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw111918-3-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw111918-3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I originally wanted to study abroad but everyone says you have your whole life o travel and only 4 years of college. I want to relish in life here &#8212; what do I do?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tough decision, but, in general, it is easier to spend a significant period of time abroad during college than at any other time of your life. And it doesn&#8217;t have to be a full year; there are opportunities for a semester or just a few weeks, so you can still spend so much quality Heights time before you graduate. The Office of International Programs has some great questions to think it through: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ShouldIStayOrShouldIGoNow\">bit.ly\/ShouldIStayOrShouldIGoNow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough decision, but, in general, it is easier to spend a significant period of time abroad during college than at any other time of your life. And it doesn&#8217;t have to be a full year; there are opportunities for a semester or just a few weeks, so you can still spend so much quality Heights &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/11\/19\/i-originally-wanted-to-study-abroad-but-everyone-says-you-have-your-whole-life-o-travel-and-only-4-years-of-college\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I originally wanted to study abroad but everyone says you have your whole life o travel and only 4 years of college&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-life-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}