Exordium

Studying abroad is a dream for some and a necessity for others. Those who need the experience to get the job that they are spending money and years on might just be out of grasp and all that hard work was for nothing, down the drain. Imagine, it's your junior year in college, you switched your major in the beginning of your sophomore year. You were hoping that this summer after the spring semester you wanted to go to Spain for an intersession so that you can become an English teacher in a Spanish-speaking country. You have loved reading and literature unlike many others, you have taken an immense interest in learning a foreign language early on, now it's your dream to teach and you can have everything you love all-in-one. The college you currently go to has very limited trips led by the school, so you look into other websites linked through the college's personal website. You put in your application for the trip, you save up money all semester into the summer. You get an email about whether or not you got to make the trip, you are so excited because this would be a dream come true. It says that unfortunately all spots were filled and you wait have to wait another 3 months for the next trip or until the following summer of next year so that wouldn't miss school. Because this intersession was on a well known public site, there were many applications and it is on a first come-first serve basis. If there were more opportunities through Cal U, being the small school that it is, this would have been much less likely to happen and you would be benefitted by being on campus with the actual faulty advising these school-associated intersessions since you could ask questions in a person one-on-one setting. Not only that, but you wouldn't be competing with as many other people either.