University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

Premium Content The Influence of Foreign Travel

by Anonymous - June 14, 2004

Describe all significant travel outside your home country for studies or employment. Why did you pursue your experience abroad? How long did you stay (include dates)? How did it enhance your understanding of cultural differences?

During my junior year of high school, I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in a student exchange program to Italy sponsored by the Ontario Student Exchange Foundation and Intercultura. The exchange program worked on a reciprocal basis: my Italian partner, Simone Pisana, came to stay with my family in Canada for three months in the fall of 1995, and after a three month separation I went to Italy, where...

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