CBIE: Why Should You Study Abroad?
Why should students take the leap and study abroad? Dr. Sheila Embleton from York University talks about the academic and personal benefits students can experience.
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but it’s it’s about personal growth and
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whether that’s personal growth just in
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the sense of maturing being able to live
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away from your normal support system
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live away from your normal life where
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you just know how everything is done you
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know where the grocery store is you know
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how to go into a post office where that
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becomes a challenge and so you it puts
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you out of your comfort zone and every
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time you’re out of your comfort zone you
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do learn and you do grow personally so
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you grow in confidence and maturity I
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think and that that just sets you up
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well for whatever you’re going to be
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doing afterwards then of course there
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are the obvious things you learn like
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possibly a language possibly a skill
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possibly another culture you know you
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get to know another part of the world so
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you of course learn these these other
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more explicit skills as well and for
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students who are still not convinced I
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do talk to them about the fact that many
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employers now are specifically looking
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for international experience and if
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nothing else having international
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experience will mark them out as
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compared to all the other people who
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have bas or BS CS or MBAs or whatever it
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is having the international experience
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will distinguish them so the specific
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skills the general skills and just
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marking yourself out from from other
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people I first started coming to them
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while I was vpa at York and it was just
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a way to actually learn about what’s
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going on in international and meet
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people from across the country from
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other institutions and so on and learn
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from them and also people from other
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walks of life I mean obviously we have a
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lot of people from foreign affairs here
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and so on as well so it for me it
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started as I think a learning experience
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but I think it quickly became a sharing
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experience
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and so just being used to sharing
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information with people it’s a good
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place to come just to meet all the other
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people across the country and actually
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beyond who are interested in
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internationalization so I really come
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for for those reasons