<p>I actually was shocked when I went abroad this past year and discovered that the vast majority of students I studied with hadn’t brought a converter of some sort to charge/plug in computers. For some strange reason, that isn’t something that seems to occur to a lot of people.</p>
<p>Also I will admit that I am completely guilty of not knowing how to drive stick-shift - that almost bit me in the a** - but at least I knew that it would probably happen, haha. This article isn’t terrible - but there are a lot of other, more important things that you should know, such as health insurance information and whether or not you’ll have any contact with people at home (we had no phone and internet was ridiculously expensive).</p>