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We all have dreams of Shutting Up and Going for weeks and months on end – but that’s not always possible. With jobs and university...

“You look Egyptian but sound like a tourist.” – every local I met in Egypt. While stressing over finals in my last semester of university, I...

In the months before coming to Senegal, the thing I searched for the most was clarity. Clarity within myself, clarity in what the heck I...

“You’ve never been to Stonehenge?! How, when it’s right there??” This was just one of a few surprised statements I’d come to expect of my...

Long weekends are for catching flights, and that’s exactly what I did this past Valentine’s day weekend. Thanks to my ever obsessive search for cheap...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: time to get home to the fam from wherever you’ve been working/studying/travelling. Back to your hometown, ready...

This is Know Your $h!t – a series where I help you get in the know before you Shut Up And Go. Get the historical,...

When I started looking into study abroad as a freshman in college, I met a travel evangelist whose name I no longer remember. Let’s call...

This is Know Your $h!t – a series where I help you get in the know before you Shut Up And Go. Get the historical,...

Warning: This story deals with the topic of restrictive eating patterns that could be potentially triggering.

Learning languages can be a drag. Let’s not lie to ourselves. The countless hours of revising for tests, learning grammar rules, practicing accents, perfecting vocab,...

Every now and then, we need that little extra ooomph to help us work through it all and grow. Whether you just dropped out of...