What I Did in Florence…
Current Student Advisors
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Mallory Bounds —Florence, Winter and Spring 2006-07 | |
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MAJOR: International Relations |
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| Academic Interests: organized religion; public opinion and statistics | ||
| Florence is fairly small and it is easy to get around; my host house was a perfect point of departure for exploring the city. I stopped spending my free afternoons on the Facebook. Instead I went jogging in the Tuscan foothills or attended mass at Santa Croce. Read full profile » | ||
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Owen Frivold —Florence, Autumn & Winter 2006-07 | |
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| MAJORS: Communication, Italian | MAJOR ADVISOR: Jeremy Bailenson, Caroline Springer | |
| Like most undergrads I arrived at Stanford having some pre-defined plan about how I was going to spend my time here on the Farm. I started my Junior year thinking, as I had from the start, that I would only stay one quarter in Florence, come back, take a full-load of courses, and graduate a year early. After two weeks in Italy, I realized that I needed to reconsider my big plans.Read full profile » | ||
Past Student Advisors
| Jasmine Chiu — Student | |
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| MAJOR: Art History MINOR: Dance & Italian |
MAJOR ADVISOR: Jody Maxmin |
| INTERNSHIP: Tour guide in the Florence Duomo with the Ars et Fides (Art and Faith) | QUARTERS OVERSEAS: Florence, Winter & Spring 2005-06; BOSP Oxford Seminar, 2006 |
| ACADEMIC INTERESTS/RESEARCH: Visual and Performing Arts, Humanities, and all things Italian! | |
| To live— however briefly— in Florence was a spiritual, intellectual, and deeply personal turning point in my life. It was truly remarkable how things that I had previously considered so important faded away in light of all that I saw, felt, and experienced in Italy. Maybe it had something to do with treading in the literal footsteps of giants of our past such as Michelangelo, da Vinci, Vasari, Brunelleschi, Machiavelli, Galileo, the Medici, Dante,… Read full profile » | |
| Elaine Choi — Student | |
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| MAJOR: International Relations | MAJOR ADVISOR: Michael Tomz |
| ACADEMIC INTERESTS: International human rights, International law | QUARTERS OVERSEAS: Florence, Winter & Spring 2005-06 |
| When I first arrived at my host family’s door and my host sister began spewing out Italian faster than I could process, I was overwhelmed and slightly anxious. How would I be able to live in a family where I could only understand about half of what was flying about at the dinner table?How would I take classes in Italian and read academic pieces in Italian? Despite these fears, I found that the transition was much smoother than I expected… Read full profile » | |
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Catherine Carlton — Student | |
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| MAJOR: History | MAJOR ADVISOR: Jack Rakove | |
| QUARTERS OVERSEAS: Florence, Autumn & Winter 2004-05 | ||
| For as long as I can remember one of my main goals in life has been to travel the world and experience different cultures. Before I even got into Stanford, I knew that their abroad program would allow me to pursue these goals and that played a big part in my decision to come to Stanford… Read full profile » | ||
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Cameron Jewell — Student | |
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| MAJOR: History MINOR: Creative Writing |
MAJOR ADVISOR: Richard Klein | |
| QUARTERS OVERSEAS: Florence, Winter & Spring 2004-05 | ||
| I found two things to be true: 1. There is nothing like the necessity of communication to make you learn a foreign language. If I wanted to get turkey instead of pig brain on my sandwiches I was going to have to learn Italian. And 2. Italy is one of the most hospitable countries in the entire world. Within no time I had come to think of Florence as my home… Read full profile » | ||