February 2009
3 posts
Unaccommodating Accommodations
Never again will I complain about University housing. If ever I thought that ISU was not quick enough to respond to a complaint or issue I’ve had with my housing, I was wrong.
I guess it goes all the way back to December when I was setting up accommodations for University housing in Edinburgh. I had filled out my top three choices on the website and submitted it. A few weeks later I...
Campus Trends
After having been in Edinburgh for a little over a month now, I have noticed several differences between that of the ISU campus and students and those of the University of Edinburgh.
One of the more noticable things of course is dress. Students here, more particularly girls, appear as though they just threw on whatever garments were close at hand when they woke up, tossed on a floppy hat and...
January 2009
6 posts
Intro
I am a senior at Iowa State University studying Journalism and Sociology. This semester I am currently studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
I have started to blog for several purposes, the main and most important one being that it will be an extension of ETHOS magazine. I hope that my posts will bring insight to readers and those interested in studying abroad.
Over the...
Linlithgow
Yesterday Shelby* and I, along with Wanda*, Jackie* and Cassandra* and several other international students, went to Linlithgow with the ISC (International Student Center). We were to meet at 8:45 am, check in and go. They didn’t start checking us in until 9am. They ran out of train tickets for the students going, even though they “had enough” at sign up, and were overall very...
