Study abroad is a life changing experience from which every student can benefit.
You will begin to acquire skills, knowledge, and experience while studying abroad that will affect the quality of your life and your career prospects in important ways. As is true about acquiring any expertise, building international competence is an incremental process that for many people starts in college with their first overseas experience and continues throughout life in virtually any career you can imagine. You must understand from the start that you will gain only as much as you put of yourself into the experience. You will definitely have fun, but you will have to work just as hard as you do on campus and deal with unexpected challenges. When you return, you will find your courses more engaging and your attention more focused because you have new insights and a broader experience.