By Liz O’Neill
I had the amazing opportunity to study abroad for the fall semester of my junior year at SMU in Copenhagen, Denmark with the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. Studying abroad was probably my most amazing experience at SMU thus far. I learned so much about myself while living abroad, it was a completely new and different experience. SMU has so many amazing options for studying abroad, and students can build their own program to fit their degree needs. I chose to study in Copenhagen because DIS offers science classes, which are difficult to find in study abroad programs, especially for chemistry majors like me. I traveled with my classes all over Denmark and Europe, and I really used Europe as my classroom. I studied the various health care systems in Denmark, Austria, and Hungary, and I learned so much about European health care and hospital systems in both Western Europe and post-Communism central/eastern Europe while in Hungary. Going abroad facilitated my wanting to attend medical school, and I wouldn’t be the person I am today without having gone abroad, and SMU’s amazing study abroad advisors made that dream come true!