Stanford Overseas: On Being a Jew in Germany, On Township Tourism, & On Surviving Oxford Tutorials
or, See, we didn’t just party!

by Dustin Janatpour
Studied in Oxford, Fall 2011
Photos by Kate Erickson
Normally you give yourself the following option during each crunch-morning: choose two of shower, snack, and sleep. But you have overslept, so snack and shower will have to wait until after today’s tutorial. Best fix the dent in your hair so the tutor doesn’t get worried or ask funny questions.

by Mary Glen Frederick
Studied in Cape Town, Winter 2011
Photos by Cole Murphy-Hockett
We begin in a literal paradise. Cape Town, one of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth. Lush and rich and surrounded by mountains keeping watch over an eyelet of aqua, winking turquoise in the glorious sun. The ocean air hangs so thick on sweatered nights you can trap the salt between your fingerprints.

by Seth Winger
Studied in Berlin, Spring 2010
It’s a phrase I’m used to saying, for one reason or another.

What does it mean to live a life of poetry?