{"id":148618,"date":"2019-04-19T08:24:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T12:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=148618"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:01:54","slug":"education-abroad-luis-rivera-19-prague-czech-repbulic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/04\/education-abroad-luis-rivera-19-prague-czech-repbulic\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Abroad: Luis Rivera &#8217;19, Prague, Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Luis Rivera<br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> Senior<br \/>\n<strong>Major:<\/strong> Accounting<br \/>\n<strong>Education Abroad program:<\/strong> Prague, Czech Republic, summer 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>About:<\/strong> Luis Rivera grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and graduated from Bullard-Havens Technical High School. He is part of the Student Support Services (SSS) program at UConn, which assists students who are first-generation to go to college, from low-income families, and from populations underrepresented in higher education. He graduates from UConn this spring and already has a job lined up \u2013 as an auditor with PwC, a company where he has previously done summer internships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you decide to do an Education Abroad program?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I was born in Colombia and moved to the United States when I was three. I have been back there to visit, but that was the only time I traveled outside the U.S., and I wanted to experience a new country. In my accounting program, I needed 150 credits to become a CPA, so I needed some extra work which this trip would give me. I thought the Prague program would be a good fit for me academically and personally.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Luis Rivera, UConn Education Abroad, April 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/djFcREy_kY8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your experience like in Prague?<br \/>\n<\/strong>We took a Czech language class, which was cool, but really hard. We also took a writing class at Charles University. Prague was different for me, and there was a culture shock at first. People are more closed off there at first than other places. They are very quiet and reserved. So at first, I kept to myself, but at Charles University, the students were very outgoing. The Charles students were taking summer classes and they would say hi and come up to you. I transitioned well because I have been around a lot of different people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You went on this trip as part of the SSS program. How did they help you on this trip and overall as an UConn student?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Without SSS, I would not be here to be honest. They helped me transition to college with a summer program before my freshman year, and we took a couple of classes to get our foot in the door. When I had my first challenges academically, they were a big help. We had about 20 SSS student on this trip. I learned a lot about a different country and met a lot of different people, even some people from UConn who were in a different class. I got an entire different experience from other people&#8217;s perspectives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you think you experience in Education Abroad will help you as you begin your professional life?<br \/>\n<\/strong>My experience in an Education Abroad has taught me how to adapt quickly. In my professional life, this will be a crucial skill I need, to learn how to adapt to different clients, teams, and projects I get placed on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do you think it is important for people to experience life in different countries and cultures?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I think it&#8217;s important to experience different cultures and countries to grow as a person. Meeting new people, experiencing different foods, and being a part of something different like a study abroad group will help further your growth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accounting major Luis Rivera &#8217;19 (BUS) says his Education Abroad experience in Prague, Czech Republic, helped him grow as a person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":148303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2192,88,1862,2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-148618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fairfield-county","category-global-affairs","category-busn","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 07:25:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148618"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148926,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148618\/revisions\/148926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/148303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148618"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=148618"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=148618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}