May 19, 2011: Dhina Susanti is a senior majoring in electrical engineering. Originally from Semarang, Indonesia, Dhina first came to Madison in 2007 through a scholarship from the Freedom Institute. She will be leaving for Beijing, China in summer 2011 to take part in an international internship with Bucyrus International. What inspired you to apply [...]
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Badgers who wrote for the Badgers Abroad Blog (BAB) this past semester, share their abroad experiences. John Wells John Wells graduated from UW-Madison in December of 1973. He had studied East Asian studies and taken five semesters of Japanese before deciding to start a new life in Japan. He has lived in Japan ever since, [...]
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Mandy [Sioman] Chan grew up in Macau, China. She came to UW-Madison in 2008 to study computer engineering. Mandy has worked in UW–Madison’s Division of International Studies’ communications office for the past year. This summer, she traveled back to China to intern at Companhia de Electricidade in her hometown of Macau. She works there as [...]
Mandy [Sioman] Chan grew up in Macau, China. She came to UW-Madison in 2008 to study computer engineering. Mandy has worked in UW–Madison’s Division of International Studies’ communications office for the past year. This summer, she traveled back to China to intern at Companhia de Electricidade in her hometown of Macau. She works there as [...]
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by Steven B. Zwickel, College of Engineering I posted a piece on my 2008 adventure in China on the Badgers Abroad Blog. Here’s the story of what happened when I went back in 2009. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My experience in China in 2008 was transformational and I was determined to find some way of going back. As [...]
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1. Bring your own toilet paper/tissue to use in the bathroom — there is not always toilet paper. 2. Most bathrooms have a 1 – 2 inch lip of marble separating it from the rest of the room. Be sure to step over this so your feet or toes do not get injured or stubbed. [...]
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Sent from Taiwan by UW-Madison dance student Brittany Wittmann Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Unlike street fashions, dancers here in Taiwan wear similar clothes, for the most part, as in the United States. Last week all of us UW dancers came to class clad in leotards and tights. We quickly found that their dancers take class, [...]
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Posted from Taiwan by UW-Madison dance student, Brittany Wittmann Sunday, June 7, 2009 Today was a wonderful day. Laura, Megan, Natalie, Ali, Mychelyn, Amy, and I ventured off on our own and spent the morning and afternoon at the Shimending Market. The market surrounded a metro station and curved and winded along large and small [...]
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A missive from Kate Corby, assistant professor in the UW Madison Dance Program… June, 5, 2009 Hello!! We are having a great time and wish you were here! After a 25-hour journey starting in Madison, we arrived safe and sound in Taipei last evening. The hotel is clean and comfortable and the staff are very [...]
June 3, 2009 – Fourteen UW-Madison dance majors and three faculty members are flying halfway around the world today to participate in a three-week cultural exchange program in Taipei, Taiwan. Students will join Taiwanese students at the country’s most prestigious dance school, Taipei National University of the Arts, for daily technique classes, rehearsals, and a [...]
Each year, International Student Services holds the International Student Essay Contest. This year’s theme was “U.S. Elections: What Do You See?” This year’s first place winner is Bingzhi Zhao from China. “I brought a chocolate today, because we have a chocolate president now.” Becky, my English teacher, smiles, “Everybody got smiles in their faces today.” [...]
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Each year, International Student Services holds the International Student Essay Contest. This year’s theme was “U.S. Elections: What Do You See?” This year’s third place winner was Yiqian Xu from China. One day when I walked down the Bascom Hill, a beautiful girl politely stopped me. She encouraged me to register to vote, and strongly [...]
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Steven B. Zwickel is a faculty associate in the College of Engineering’s Technical Communication Program at UW-Madison. When I stepped out of my hotel in Guangzhou, China in July, 2008, I realized that I couldn’t read the signs, had no idea where I was, and I couldn’t understand a single word being spoken by the [...]
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After a summer spent studying in China, UW-Madison undergraduate Ben Nyquist came back to Madison with more than just a suitcase full of souvenirs: he had an idea for a business. Thanks to a student exchange between UW-Madison and Nankai University, Nyquist spent three months in Tianjin, China, where he earned a full year’s worth [...]
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Undergraduate John Bedessem spent the summer of 2008 in Tianjin, China on a business program. Life in Tianjin: I’ve been in China for three enjoyable weeks, living in Tianjin, a city of about ten million people. The city is surrounded by factories, and since Tianjin is one of China’s largest industrial cities there’s not much [...]
