The beginning of my college experience was unlike most. I moved to another continent, a place I had never been with a language I did not know, into an apartment with four other people. Essentially, us “N.U.in” students got dropped off in a new place and suddenly had a lot more freedoms than in the United States. 

The N.U.in program at Northeastern offers incoming students an opportunity to spend their first semester abroad in locations such as Rome, Madrid and Dublin. Northeastern also offers a “Bound” program which is a year-long. Students spend their first year abroad before returning to Boston to begin their second year. As an N.U.in student, I spent my first semester abroad in Rome.