It is hard not to notice how Uriel Anchondo’s face lights up when he talks about his Spring 2022 出国留学 experience in Olomouc, Czech Republic. 他最近毕业于太阳城娱乐官网大学科尔尼分校的计算机科学专业，他在大一那年就决定，他想利用太阳城娱乐官网为学生提供的出国留学机会。  计划是明智的。 “My advisor and I worked out a plan to make it happen my senior year.”  

虽然出国留学有很多选择，但安孔多知道他想和一群学生一起参加，而不是利用更多的单独交流项目。 这使得捷克共和国项目有15名学生，由一名太阳城娱乐官网教员领导，是一个不错的选择。 尤其是安孔多想去欧洲看看。 在不到3个月的时间里，他总共访问了11个国家。  

Anchondo和其他太阳城娱乐官网学生一起住在奥洛穆茨帕拉基大学的宿舍里，他上了4门课：捷克语入门、捷克和欧洲历史。 这些转移到他的太阳城娱乐官网学分。 He found the Czech people “very open to us as foreign students. They were friendly and accommodating, especially in terms of the language barrier.”

出国留学开阔视野

对于那些想要探索多个国家的人来说，出国留学提供了很多机会。 “We had the opportunity to travel either within the Czech Republic or across Europe during the weekends,” using Olomouc as the home base. 他们去了波兰、布拉格、德累斯顿和捷克乡村，还去了威尼斯、奥地利和维也纳，行程长达一周。 在春假的那一周，安孔多可以独自去罗马和雅典旅行。 在课程开始之前，我还和两个朋友一起去了西班牙。

He says that seeing the canals of Venice, the Parthenon and other “historical monuments I learned about growing up, but was now seeing in person, was eye opening.” 安孔多解释说，在罗马广场等地方看到历史的层次感是多么有趣。  2000年前，他们用大理石建造，500年前用鹅卵石建造，现在用水泥建造。

出国旅行也会带来挑战，对安孔多来说，这是对家人和牧场多力多滋的思念。 And it came with getting out of his comfort zone and “trying to communicate with others or asking for directions when “there was a possibility that the person you are going to ask isn’t going to speak English.” 安孔多学会了在两种语言之间寻找常用词。 “With our intro to Czech class we learned enough that if we heard a word or two, we knew what they meant.”

Communicating effectively with others was Anchondo’s most rewarding experience while abroad. He recounts how he was standing in a restaurant holding number 46 and “I hear and understood 44, then 45, and then knew, that’s me.”  

出国留学有好处

虽然Anchondo在国外没有参加任何适用于他专业的课程，但他对他的太阳城娱乐官网计算机科学教授以及他们对他的帮助赞不绝口。 “They push you to be a better student, ask questions, give help and answer questions, and provide a lot of individual and group assignments that apply the knowledge you have learned.” 无论你的专业是什么，学生在国外学习时都会用到一些可转换的技能。

Some of the skills he learned in his major, like noticing patterns “when coding or looking at code,” helped him with similarities and patterns in the language differences. 他把自己解决问题的能力用在了许多新的方面，从找出最佳的交通选择，到帮助父母解决长途旅行中的技术难题。 “It definitely helped me learn to explain technical solutions differently than doing it for them.”  

留学机会可以在多个国家提供，适合许多学术目标，从一周到一年的时间不等。  When asked if he would encourage other students to 出国留学, Anchondo breaks into a grin and says, “100%.” He explains that it’s a great way to:

• 体验新文化
• 扩展你的知识
• 走出你的舒适区，尝试新事物
• Learn “in an interactive way that feels less like learning and more like exploring.”
• 看看其他国家

安孔多在海外最喜欢的食物是捷克炖牛肉和意大利千层面，所有这些旅行都让他知道，他想继续旅行。 “While I was there, I just wanted to keep exploring. Europe has shown that it’s very easy to say, ‘this weekend I want to visit a new place I’ve never seen before.’”

If handed a plane ticket to anywhere, Anchondo would choose to return to Cinque Terra, Italy which “had the most amazing views I had ever seen, of the Mediterranean Sea, town, everywhere I looked.” 他参观了5个小镇中的2个，在海滩上吃饭，徒步旅行，但他想回去参观所有的5个小镇。

如果出国留学是你的未来 

希望出国留学的同学：

• Start planning your 出国留学 experience early.
• 与你的学术顾问一起探索课程、地点和选择。
• 经济援助通常适用于留学经历。
• 出国留学奖学金。 联系 安娜让.