Award-Winning Essays
From 2001 to 2009, Northwestern Study Abroad held an annual essay contest for recent returnees. Submissions included such topics as:
- Adjustment to a new culture, language, and academic environment;
- New perspectives on particular political, economic, or social issues;
- Personal insights or experiences;
- A valuable lesson learned during the time abroad;
- A particularly humorous anecdote.
- "Calculated Chaos," by Simon Han (2009)
- "Fear of the Other: The Call to Prayer at Dusk," by Elliot Reichert (2008)
- "Colori," by Mary Jo Madda (2007)
- "Through the eyes of a child," by Laura Selby (2005)
- "Cooking Class," by Rachel Feller (2004)
- "My Keitai," by Alanna Krause (2004)
- "Nonnas," by Emily Hagenmaier (2003)
- "Losing Awe, Gaining Denmark," by Grace Hong (2003)
- "Porque es preciso perderse Para volver a encontrarse--Because it is precisely in losing yourself That you return to find yourself," by Laurie Jirak (2003)
- "Terror Experienced Abroad: An American Student Studies in Muslim Kenya," by Maureen Farrell (2002)
- "The Lessons that I Learned in Spain," by Christina Saenz (2002)
- "The French Look," by Roni Ben-David (2001)
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