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This summer I had the opportunity to travel abroad to Cadiz Spain, and conduct research at the University of Cadiz.\u00a0 I went with a group of seven other students, and we had different professors and employees from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in Spain with us during our stay.\u00a0 For our research each student was paired with a professor at the University of Cadiz based on the student\u2019s degree, experience, and interests.\u00a0 We had a two-day orientation before we left for Cadiz where we were able to meet the other students going, meet some of the program heads from Spain and meet some of the program heads from Chattanooga.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This summer greatly impacted my undergraduate experience, from the friendships I made to the things I learned doing research.\u00a0 The research I conducted this summer involved topics that I had not studied in school yet.\u00a0 I had to learn a lot of difficult topics before I was able to understand what we were doing.\u00a0 This summer has taught me a lot about how to study and teaching yourself difficult academic concepts.\u00a0 It also taught me a lot about how to research different topics and read a research paper.\u00a0 Having the opportunity to live in Spain for the summer and experience a different culture has impacted my undergraduate experience in ways that sitting in a classroom never could.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will take the experience I had this summer with me to my future jobs and relationships.\u00a0 Being abroad I had to learn how to communicate with people who spoke a different language than I did.\u00a0 This made me figure out ways to communicate with people even through a language barrier.\u00a0 Being in a country where I didn\u2019t speak the native language gave me more empathy for people who come into America and don\u2019t speak English.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While in Spain I got to travel around a good bit, both with the program and on my own.  The program took us down to a town called Tarifa in southern Spain.  Here we got to see Africa from the coast of Spain, and we were able to explore the city as well as visit some Roman ruins.  My mentor was very flexible with working hours and gave me a few days off so that I could travel to different countries in Europe with two of the girls in the program with me.  The three of us found cheap (under $100) flights and were able to go to Cagliari an island in Italy and then Luxembourg, Belgium, and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During my time in Spain, I stayed in a town called El Puerto de Santa Marie and worked in a town just a few minutes away called Puerto Real.  Living in El Puerto de Santa Marie was really nice.  All the people in the town were really patience with our Spanish and the town was laid out so that it was easy to walk anywhere you needed to go.  When we needed to leave the town to go to work or go to Cadiz or anywhere else it was easy to purchase and use our buss cards and train passes.  Both the bus card and train passes were cheap to get and lasted for the entire summer.  If anyone is thinking about applying to this program or another program that takes students abroad, I would greatly recommend for them to go ahead and apply!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holland Luttrell (BS Mechanical Engineering)\u00a0participated in the Summer 2023 international summer learning opportunity for students offered through the\u00a0Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors<\/a>. The International Summer Undergraduate Research Program represents a collaboration between The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the University of Cadiz in Spain. The purpose of the initiative is to support students to participate in an eight (8) week intensive research experience during the summer in a global environment. Holland had the following to say about studying abroad, \u201cIt is a once in a lifetime opportunity that will challenge you and put you out of your comfort zone but is 100% worth it!”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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