Off Campus Studies Meeting

Friday, we met with Rebecca in the OCS office and found three possible universities in Australia that would best suit Sterling and myself based on our majors (Math&Computer Science and Health Sciences, respectively). Our top choice as of now is Wollongong University (seen in the photo from http://www.ranke-heinemann.at/australien/feature.php?id=21&demo=1), next is the University of Queensland, and our third choice is James Cook University, Townsville campus. Luckily, the Gettysburg Health Sciences department accepts some of the courses offered in Australia as HS electives (such as exercise physiology), which I need 4 of for my major requirement, and of course, the whole world does math, so Sterling shouldn't have any trouble finding classes no matter which one we choose. The main downers about Australia is the cost of the Visa to get in there (on top of the other costs) and the fact that they start school in the middle of our Summer so that means less time to work, (yet more time to work over Winter break). If it turns out that it doesn't work out for us, we are considering the UK as a back-up plan. And if that doesn't work, we would just stay here, which wouldn't be that depressing because we love it here!! (But let's be real... how often do we get the chance to go to Australia??)

Oh yeah, we also learned that all of the schools we looked at have MARRIED HOUSING!!! Sheesh... why can't Gettysburg have that? ...Oh yeah, we'd be the only ones in the building!