Incredibly rewarding Past Review
By Emma Picardi (Middlebury College) - abroad from 08/19/2017 to 12/09/2017 with
Yestermorrow Design/Build School: Vermont - Semester in Sustainable Design/Build
What did you gain/learn from your experience abroad? Was it worthwhile?
Not abroad of course, but learned so much about group process and working I a team and building science and history of VT, etc
Personal Information
| How much international exposure did you have prior to this program? | 1 month - 6 months |
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| If you could do it all over again would you choose the same program? |
Yes
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Finances
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* Money: How easily were you able to live on a student's budget?
(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost) |
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| Not including program expenses, about how much money did you spend on food and other expenses each week? | Just paid for weekend food, which could have been as little as $15, but was often a bit more eating out, etc |
| Do you have any general money-saving tips for future study abroad participants? | Not at Yester. Very easy to be frugal. |
Language
| * Did your program have a foreign language component? | No |
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A Look Back
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| * What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? | Patience |
Individual Course Reviews
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Yestermorrow Semester on Sustainable Design + Build |
| Course Department: | History of Art & Architecture |
| Instructor: | Eric Cooke & Jesse Cooper |
| Instruction Language: | English |
| Comments: | Challenging at points, but not consistently academically rigorous. Field trips and hands on work was amazing! Instructors were both very knowledgeable. Being more experienced/knowledgeable than many of my classmates, I participated considerably more than an average Midd class. Assessed with design assignments, research projects, readings and responses, but mostly participation in the design/build process |
| Credit Transfer Issues: | Only at the outset getting the program approved, but hopefully it will be smoother for Middlebury students in the future. |
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