Spanish was my language elective from middle school through my freshman year of college, yet when I studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain in the summer of 2014, the most Spanish I spoke was to order my daily coffee. “Cafe con leche para llevar por favor.”

This time last year I was sending in my final housing deposit to spend two months in Washington D.C. for the summer. I’m not very political and I live in New York so why I’ve always been drawn to the District is something I didn’t really understand. I had only been there once before, on…

New Orleans was never a city that was on my radar. At least not until junior year when I joined the marketing club. The American Marketing Association (AMA) hosts their annual collegiate conference every spring in New Orleans and our chapter used this conference as an incentive to entice members to work hard and participate…