Whether you're looking for your Lizzie Mcguire Italy moment or an Eat Pray Love self-realization, there is a ton that you won't truly be able to prepare yourself for until you are in that very moment while studying abroad. From the endless scrolling of everyone's perfect abroad lives, sipping champagne on boats outside off of the Italian coast, surfing in Australia, and even all of the Oktoberfest pics on your feed, it is hard but to not think to yourself, "is it just me?

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Claire and I spent half of 2019 studying abroad. I was fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to spend all of January in Portugal, Spain and Morocco studying business, and the last half of the year at a long-term study abroad program in London. Studying abroad was something that I had always known I wanted to do.