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It is our wish to provide you, our valued readers, with engaging and interesting information about the spectacular world around us, and, hopefully, the words you find here will also inspire you to get out, to learn, to live, and above all else, to travel!

Actionable Ways to Rock Your Study Skills

Study skills may come easy for some students. However, for those students that struggle to keep up with term papers, discussions, projects, and all other tasks during a study abroad program is ...

by Staff, Sophia Glinski

Staying on the Balance Beam: A High School Survival Guide through Organization

When we were younger, our perception of balance was limited to a game of hopscotch, make it through all of the numbered boxes chalked onto the concrete outside without falling and win. With time, ...

5 Tips to Ace the SAT/ACT

5 Tips to Ace the SAT/ACT As one of the world’s worst test takers, the SAT and ACT were my living nightmares. I dreaded studying for them, taking them, and even hearing their names made me sick ...

by Staff, Jolie Blair , Sun Valley, Idaho

Boston, Session 1

  For starters, the Abbey Roads College Prep program has been an amazing experience for me and I encourage any fellow hard-working student to seize this opportunity if they have the chance. ...

by Student, Kenley W. , Boston, USA

SAT prep and College tours

So Tuesday was my (and the rest of the new kids’) first official SAT prep class of this session, where we met our prep teacher, SAT extraordinaire, Patrick Choi. Patrick has been working with ...

by Student, Jonathan O. , New Hampshire

Abbey Road College Prep Program

So this last Sunday was the first day of the third session of the Abbey Road college prep program. Initially, I was quite nervous, as I had arrived only twenty minutes before all of the ...

by Student, Jonathan O. , New Hampshire

College Prep: Madison's Journal #2

Journal Entry #2 Night 2: I feared I had begun a rather strange sleep pattern waking up for the second night in a row at 2:30 am on the dot. Day 2: I woke up, got ready, ate breakfast, and went to ...

by Student, Madison A. , Massachusetts

College Prep: Madison's Journal

Journal: First Entry night 1: Interesting start. I didn’t want my mom to leave at all. She’s my comfort blanket and I didn’t want to let her go!! But once she did I began to ...

by Student, Madison A. , Massachusetts

Saturday at the Franklin Park Zoo

Group shot at the zoo! Over the weekend, we took our students to the Franklin Park Zoo (website) in Boston. Highlights of the trip included the bird enclosure and feeding the budgies. Lauren, ...

College Tours, SAT Prep, & Boston Adventures!

View along the Charles River Esplanade, a short walk from our Boston dorm This Tuesday, our students attended an SAT lecture followed by a tour of Tufts University. The students were eager to ...

by Student, Alexis R. , Tennessee

Time Flies When You're Having Fun in Boston!

It’s almost the end of the two week long college prep course, but it feels as though we just got started. We have taken four SAT practice tests throughout the course, and each time I see how ...

Parting with Boston is Such Sweet Sorrow!

This session has passed by so fast! Both sessions did, actually. I can’t believe that I’ve been in Boston for about a month… We’ve done so much, yet so little in comparison ...