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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
My first day in Oxford was a busy one. After about a day's worth of travelling, I arrived on campus in desperate need of sleep and food. After getting relatively lost in the city, my friends and I stumbled upon a pub. While they were excited to…
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Somerset House
- Somerset House
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Strand Church
- Strand Church
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
The 2012 Duke in London-Drama program attended 28 productions including operas, modern dance shows, plays, monologue collections, musicals, and verbatim theatre. Our class paid special attention to Shakespeare, however, as a prolific playwright, particularly in Britain. We saw Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and as "groundlings"…
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
Although the best I could muster in the languages department after a semester abroad was a half-decent imitation of an Englishman, studying in London for the fall was one of the defining decisions of my Duke experience.
As many who live and study away attest, often the…
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
When people ask how my semester in London was, I can only say that it was an eye-opening experience that pushed me out of my comfort zone and taught me things I could never have learned had I stayed in the United States. Many sides of my…
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Duke in Oxford
- Duke in Oxford
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Tower of London
- The Tower of London with a view of "Traitor's Gate", so named because prisoners accused of treason such as Queen Anne Boleyn and Sir Thomas More passed through it.
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View From Waterloo Bridge
- A view of London from Waterloo Bridge.
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Duke in London Drama: Prof. Clum with Students
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Duke in London - Drama
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
My semester abroad in England has changed the way I think about America. Living in Brighton was an amazing eye-opener to just how limited the typical American's line of vision is. Because it has the highest concentration of gay people in the United Kingdom, Brighton offered a…
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
Seeing Big Ben, the London Eye, and Trafalgar Square are experiences that people never forget. However, living on a college campus in England -- hearing my flatmates' thoughts on everything from college tuition to McDonald's to politics, debating the difference between jell-o and jelly, exploring East London…
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Duke in London - Drama
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Duke in London - Drama
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office,:
My decision to spend the summer in the United Kingdom through the Duke in Oxford program was probably the best decision I've ever made. From the moment I took the bus from Heathrow airport to the city of Oxford, I was overwhelmed with excitement for the next…
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Duke in Oxford
- Duke in Oxford
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New College, Oxford
- The historic buildings of New College, University of Oxford.
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New College, Oxford
- New College, Oxford
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Duke in Oxford
- Duke in Oxford
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
The Duke in Oxford summer program was the perfect opportunity to learn about Victorian literature, England, and myself all in a single, incredible summer. For six weeks, I was immersed in an intellectual tradition stretching back through centuries -- a tradition that has maintained its energy, sophistication,…
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Duke in Oxford
- Duke in Oxford
