Author: Helena Shannon

There comes a time in the five-or-so-month lifespan of a semester abroad at which everything seems to be falling apart. Life in your country seems just so overwhelmingly frustrating, and even menial tasks seem difficult. Going to the store? A nightmare. Ordering a coffee? A disaster. Going to classes? Endless

Idioms have always been intriguing to me. For most English speakers, or really anyone speaking their native language, they sort of slip under the radar in our speech and go completely unnoticed. But when you start to notice them, you'll notice two things: first, they are very strange; second, we use

My study abroad group left Paris for a weekend to travel to Avignon, a small town in the south of France. We left early in the morning, which meant that I had to wake up at five in the morning, or, put simply, too early. As the train rolled through the

I come bearing big news! Really big, out-of-this-world, black-hole sized news! On Thursday, Feb. 11, a team of scientists announced that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes—located one billion light-years away from Earth—colliding. This little chirp, which sort of sounds like something your phone would