The whole point of our trip was to learn more about European higher education in order to compare and contrast it with our American options. Our English institution was the University of Oxford, the oldest English university. I was extremely excited to visit this campus and honestly could have spent our whole trip there. We…
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Life currently…
Currently, I am… Cooking everything. I haven’t cooked dinner regularly since 2013 (Mac was deployed in 2014. I was in grad school and Mac was constantly gone in 2015 and 2016), so I’m getting back in the habit of meal planning and prepping. Baking all sorts of stuff. I’m dusting the cobwebs off my many…
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Big Ben at night
Because you only get so much free time when you go on a coordinated trip like ours, you wind up making every little bit count. This includes late night forays to explore and photograph the sites. We popped on the tube after a dinner with some students at King’s College for our program and headed over…
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Windsor Castle, part 2
Part 1 here! These are the remaining photos from our trip to Windsor Castle.
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Windsor Castle, part 1
We visited Windsor Castle. I took tons of photos and decided to split them in two posts to not overload. The Queen was home (you can see the royal standard), and photos are also not allowed in the castle. Here’s the first batch.
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St. Paul’s Cathedral
St. Paul’s was the first stop in our long day of London sightseeing. I originally planned to attend services here as this was a Sunday morning, but this was the only time on the trip I managed to get more than 6 hours of sleep. #whoops. Photos aren’t allowed in the cathedral itself, but you…