According to Listofusnewspapers, the first plans for the Golden Gate Bridge were made in 1872, but were discarded because of the many problems to be expected such as strong currents, fog, wind and the risk of earthquakes. In 1921, engineer Joseph Strauss presented the first plans to bridge the bay. However, the plans of the […]
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According to simplyyellowpages, Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi . Founded in 1732, it is also the youngest of the states of the Southern Union. Here you can still find the touch of the “Old South”, as you know it from films like “Gone with the wind”, but also a modern, pulsating […]
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The population density, still low as the general average of the confederation, with 26 residents / km 2, is significantly increasing in the southern and western areas, while it is stable in the increasingly populous states. In the Mid Atlantic (states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) it was 140 residents / km 2 in 1970 and is still the same […]
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As in poetry, the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s also gradually faded in fiction, both at the more purely ideological level and at that of formal experimentation. The iconoclasm of the great postmodern novel by J. Barth, K. Vonnegut, Th. Pynchon and R. Coover gives way to a less conflictual writing than the conventions of […]
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Introduction Host university: Boston University – Metropolitan College Home university: European University of Applied Sciences Rhein / Erft Location: Boston, USA Period: Spring semester 2010, 08.01. – May 19, 2010 Department: Business / Management Scholarship type: DAAD semester scholarship Introduction I completed a five-month study abroad program in “Business and Management” at the Metropolitan College […]
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The 5th semester at my university is planned as a semester abroad. After thorough research, I decided to visit California State University in Chico for the 2012/2013 winter semester. The small town with just under 86,000 inhabitants is about 3 hours by car from San Francisco and is known to be very bike-friendly, which is […]
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Planning and choice of university: I started planning a little less than a year earlier, so there was always plenty of time and I wasn’t stressed at any point. There is a very wide range of options for a semester abroad, you should try to be reasonably clear what you expect and whether the focus […]
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Hey there! If you are just about to decide whether you should apply for a semester abroad or not, I can only say here: definitely do it! I’ve been to Long Beach, California for half a year now and I don’t regret a second… there is more of a tear in my buttonhole when I […]
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My name is Uli and I did my semester abroad at California State University, Los Angeles on Fall 15. It was important to me personally to take business subjects and have them recognized at my home university. The university is pretty centrally located in California . The beaches of Santa Monica and Venice can be […]
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Semester abroad in Northridge At the beginning I would like to express my compliments to MicroEDU. Questions were answered as quickly as possible and in as much detail as possible, and preparation and entry into the semester were made much easier. However, you should start applying and organizing everything 1 year to ¾ year in […]
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