Ideas for ending your Reading Week with a three-day weekend adventure.

Kari will be in Florence, Italy until Dec. 17.

I can honestly say that I love Florence and that I’m very glad to be spending my time abroad here, but sometimes it seems a little small. Rome, on the other hand, has somehow been able to maintain the feel of an enormous living and working city [...]

Kari will be in Florence, Italy until Dec. 17.

Up until now, I’ve spent many an evening Skyping, IMing or Facebooking with friends and family back in the United States. Nonno and Nonna do not have Internet and are not computer-savvy (Nonna thinks computers are “diabolical”) but I’ve been stealing wireless from some unknown benefactor. I’ve [...]

Kari will be in Florence, Italy until Dec. 17.

For over a month, almost as soon as I had arrived in Florence, plans for fall break had been in the works. Five other girls and I discussed every detail and booked all of our flights, trains and hostels, and the intention was to visit Dublin, Amsterdam [...]

Each year, nearly 700 Northwestern students study abroad in 45 countries across the globe. We’d like to introduce you to six students who will be blogging about their experiences abroad during Fall Quarter. Follow them as they get over jet lag, master foreign languages, travel everywhere and generally experience studying (or, realistically, not studying) abroad. [...]

Flying is a pain in the neck. But not for this writer.

Maybe it’s the harsh climate that makes people a little more patient with each other.

To our writer, the journey is as important as the destination.

Photos of one student’s return to Northwestern.

Night in New York City is very different when you are alone.

A resident clues you in to the most exciting places in this Michigan town.

Now all you have to worry about is gas money…

Study abroad’s only a joke if you don’t take it seriously.

In honor of the top-grossing film of the weekend, The Bucket List, here is a list of cool places to see before you die. Uplifting, eh? Well, if this film (which I haven’t seen, and don’t really plan to) teaches us anything is that you need to savor your life to the fullest, [...]

A freelance writer took a chance in traveling to West Papua to find undiscovered tribes.