I am currently enjoying the last few days of summer before senior year starts of university. I was talking to someone and they brought up studying abroad. I have never had the opportunity to study abroad. I have tried to apply for summer ones and never got the chance (A: gpa was not so good and B: I’m a spring admit).
- Spring admit is someone who has just been waitlisted but accepted (I missed fall semester).
Being a spring admit means delayed graduation by a semester and i didn’t want that. My whole focus was always trying to catch up with my class so I stayed every summer taking classes. I was able to persuade my friend to apply for study abroad who is in the same boat. Of having a low gpa as me and now she is studying abroad this fall. I am the type of person who gets really excited for something and then leave it and possibly come back to it with same excitement. I had the same excitement yesterday when an old friend said you should study abroad. I looked at my schedule right now I have 16 credits (18 max unless overload) and 14 credits (I really only need to take 6 credits but you have to have a minimum of 12 credits) in the spring. This would be my first semester without any heavy credits. If i TRULY wanted to study abroad then it would be in spring of my senior year.
If I do pursue studying abroad that means I’ll have to take 19 credits this semester and whatever I choose next semester. My school has this policy that only 1 class of your major can be taken abroad. I was going to take 2 next spring but if I study abroad i can transfer only one. That why it would be at 19 credits (I can handle that bc 4 of the 16 credits I currently have is an art class). Money is not an issue for me for studying abroad. But more so do i really want to go away the final semester before i graduate? I have not done an internship with a company, it has always been school internships and such. My bf says i should focus on trying to get a job rather than “vacationing”. We have job fairs both fall and spring. I’m a marketing major our school fairs tend to be focused on engineers and finance majors. So the push is really yourself in getting a job and who you network with.
All in all i just don’t want to feel like I regretted not studying abroad. I spent my whole college career trying to catch up and i did but i also want to travel. I am also unsure if doing it my last semester is worth it. My bf said I should just vacation in italy (where i want to go). But it’s kind of different. So idk i need your advice. (please be gentle on me for long paragraphs). What would you do? Or should I stick to relaxing my senior year?