{"id":148561,"date":"2019-04-24T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T12:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=148561"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:01:50","slug":"education-abroad-drew-asia-keating-20-london-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/04\/education-abroad-drew-asia-keating-20-london-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Abroad: Drew-Asia Keating ’20, London, England"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UConn Education Abroad program allows students to gain rich experience in other cultures by immersing themselves in the educational and social life of another country. At UConn, more than 400 programs are available, spanning 54 nations. In the 2017-18 academic year, about 19 percent of the graduating class had participated in one of the programs, well above the national average of 10 percent. More than half of those students had spent a semester or year in another country. Here is one of them.<\/p>\n

Name:<\/strong> Drew-Asia Keating
\nYear:<\/strong> Junior
\nMajor: <\/strong>Communication
\nEducation Abroad programs: <\/strong>London, summer 2018<\/p>\n

About:<\/strong> Drew-Asia Keating, a native of Stamford, Connecticut, is a communication major at UConn. She hopes to work in community relations or social media relations helping young people upon graduation. She is part of the Student Support Services (SSS) program at UConn, which aids students who are first-generation to college, from low-income families, and from populations underrepresented in higher education. She also works in the SSS office.<\/p>\n

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Drew Asia-Keating by the River Thames in London.<\/div>
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Drew Asia-Keating by the River Thames in London.<\/div><\/div>\"Drew<\/a>
Drew Asia-Keating in front of a statue in London.<\/div>
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Drew Asia-Keating in front of a statue in London.<\/div><\/div>\"Drew<\/a>
Drew Asia-Keating inside the National Portrait Gallery in London.<\/div>
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Drew Asia-Keating inside the National Portrait Gallery in London.<\/div><\/div>\"Drew<\/a>
Drew Asia-Keating and friends in front of the National Portrait Gallery in London. From left, Sarah Hernandez, Asia-Keating, and Danielle Kitchen, all UConn students.<\/div>
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Drew Asia-Keating and friends in front of the National Portrait Gallery in London. From left, Sarah Hernandez, Asia-Keating, and Danielle Kitchen, all UConn students.<\/div><\/div>\"Drew<\/a>
Drew Asia-Keating checks out an iconic phone booth ('telephone box') in London.<\/div>
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Drew Asia-Keating in front of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, part of the University of Oxford Library.<\/div>
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Drew Asia-Keating in front of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, part of the University of Oxford Library.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

What was the experience of traveling to another country like?
\n<\/strong>This was the first time I had ever been on a plane, had a passport, or traveled any amount of distance. That was a whole different experience of its own. The farthest I had been away was maybe Philadelphia. I felt like I should have been more nervous than I was, but I wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

How did you get interested in Education Abroad?
\n<\/strong>I first got interested by being part of SSS. I work in the office there, so I heard about it a lot and saw pictures. My counselor Chelsea Cichocki was the driving force to get me to apply. If it wasn\u2019t for her, I probably would not have gone.<\/p>\n

What were your impressions of London?
\n<\/strong>The most interesting thing was the fact that everyone has an idea of what a typical London accent is, but when you are there interacting with people, they all sound different. If you are from a different area of the city you sound different, and if you are from a different culture you sound different.<\/p>\n

I loved the flat we lived in and the experience of living with other people. We had six people living there and had this living room. We could come together and have family dinner there, hang out, and do homework together.<\/p>\n