You gain confidence from the daily challenges you encounter adjusting to a new culture. You learn a lot about yourself. And you meet awesome people. If you are studying a second language, it's critical that you are immersed in it at some point in your studies. With immersion, your command of the language skyrockets.
LOVE resumes from people who have spent a significant amount of time abroad.
It tells them that you have the courage, adaptability and tenacity to master new experiences and challenges. Most importantly, for me however, was the way spending time abroad brought me to a new realization of myself as an American citizen in relation to the rest of the world. There is a view of the United States that every native born U.S. citizen should have the opportunity to see.