By Ryan Wong ’27 You may have already met them during advising appointments or seen them tabling around campus—the Office of Study Abroad is delighted to welcome its newest Ambassadors! The Study Abroad Ambassadors are students who’ve returned from abroad to work part-time at the Office during the Academic Year. They walk students through the…
By Ryan Wong ’27 On October 11th, I walked a little over five minutes from my apartment to Maquinal, an underground cultural center that frequently hosts drag shows, balls, and indie rock concerts, to attend the “Into the Mirage” ball hosted by the House of Raksha (formed in Buenos Aires in 2022). From the entrance,…
A few weeks after I arrived in Buenos Aires, I found myself really missing food from home. Besides my dad’s cooking, I thought about a specific Chinese takeout store in my city I used to frequent. A few days later, I was looking for a place to get lunch when I stumbled upon a store…
We’d like to invite you to our annual Hispanic Film Series which showcases recent award-winning films from Latin America and Spain. It runs every Wednesday evening from 9/18 to 10/9 at the Goldsmith Family Cinema and is free. This year we have extraordinary films from Mexico, Colombia, Spain, and Argentina that explore issues marginality and…
This has been a year of growth and change across all areas “global” at Wesleyan. After several years of modest declines, participation in study abroad went up significantly, enrollments in language classes ticked up, and the volume of international students continued to rise. We saw notable successes by our students applying for fellowships, including the…
