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During my junior year of high school, I was offered the rare opportunity to study Japanese for a year with a local Boys & Girls Club and travel to Japan for two weeks. After admiring Japan’s historical and religious sites, embracing the kindness of its people, and falling in love with the vibes of the country, I decided to pursue the language in college. Four semesters of Japanese later, as a Hamilton student I was accepted to the Middlebury Language Program at International Christian University to study in Tokyo for my junior fall.
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Andres “Fluffy” Aguilar ’19 built an academic agenda that is taking him from Hamilton to Chile and back again — and it’s laying the groundwork for him to someday work with college students who face challenges similar to his.
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Back in the U.S. barely long enough to shake the jet lag, Allison Zuckerman ’18 already missed Munich, where she studied for 10 months, focusing on German history, culture and language.
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Twelve Hamilton students visited Sweden for a two-week study trip, looking at Swedish prisons, courts and policing practice. Ryan Bloom ’18 blogged about the trip. Following is her final update about a visit to border control, a police precinct and the court.
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Andre Burnham ‘18 and Michael Valeri ‘19 have been awarded Coccia Foundation Scholarships for study abroad in Italy. The Foundation was established in 1994 by Cavaliere Joseph Coccia, Jr., and his wife Elda. The organization is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of Italian culture, with a particular emphasis on promoting the rich Italian cultural heritage among younger generations at the college level.
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Victoria Bullivant ’18 has been awarded the U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). She will study Arabic will study in Amman, Jordan.
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Recently nominated for 12 Tony Awards, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 has been called one of the best Broadway musicals of the year by The New York Times and Time Out New York. The Hamilton New York City program had the chance to see the “electropop opera” at the Imperial Theatre on April 26.
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Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain (HCAYS) students recently visited the autonomous community of the Basque Country, known as Euskadi in Basque, and situated in the northeastern part of Spain. Twenty-seven percent of the population speak Basque- an ancestral language isolate to its people that is believed to be one of the few surviving pre-Indo-European languages in Europe. Its origin is not known.
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The New York City program took a field trip to NYU’s Bobst Library Fales special collections. NYU is home to the Marion Nestle Food Studies Collection, an expansive array of publications documenting the 19th and 20th century evolution of food practices in America, especially New York City.
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The New York City program made the most of recent spring weather, taking a trip to Columbia University’s campus to get lunch from the row of Chinese, Korean and Thai food trucks in front of the campus’ main gates. The food trucks near Columbia reflect the university’s changing demographics.
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