Don’t go to Spain 🫣 Argentina sobre todo July 29, 2025

Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc.

It was hard. I didn’t love the Argentinian format of learning compared to middlebury but I was there for the different experience in public Latin American school and that’s exactly what I got. It was great to experience that and while there was minimal support from the Argentinian university (UBA) I had plenty from the middlebury program

On-site administration of your program

It was very well run by people who care A LOT. Could be a little disorganized at times but generally good administration

How satisfied were you with your living arrangements?

No notes. It was perfect.

My host family made incredible food and were very conscious of dietary restrictions. I could not ask for anything better in terms of food, although Argentinian food in general can get a little monotonous

How integrated did you feel with the local culture?

100/10 Argentina is the place to be! I felt very integrated

How well were health issues addressed during the program?

I had a medical accident and it was my host family, a longtime partner of the program, who stayed with me for 8+ hours in the emergency room and the whole leadership of the program took great care of me. Geoblue was effective during that process, but as with all healthcare it wasn’t the most straightforward process in the world.

BA was super safe and they over prepared us for life in the city in Latin America, which was great and nobody in the program had any safety issues.

Middlebury in Argentina was basically perfect. I want to go back.

(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost)

0 = No encouragement, 5 = frequent encouragement to use the language

Language pledge- required to speak Spanish. MUCH more adherence to this policy in Argentina (and this much more improvement and learning) than in other branches of middlebury abroad in Spanish

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• Americans
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• Local Students
• Americans

• Full integration being the only international student in local public uni classes
• Learning a specific dialect of Spanish- developing my own identity
• Living in the city- BA is incredible

• Extension activities were long and wordy- hard to learn with the format
• My personal pasantía was kind of unclear in goals and expected tasks
• More people should choose Argentina!

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