We both left our homes in the UK to study in the US, but our experiences couldn't have been more different

Two of Insider's UK-based reporters attended college in different parts of the US.
Their study-abroad experiences differed in many ways, such as location, timeframe, and the campus.
However, they also made some similar observations.

Insider's senior lifestyle reporter, Mikhaila Friel, left her home in Glasgow in 2016 for an exchange semester at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, also known as MU. She spent four months living on campus, located in a small college town, and took English, journalism, and creative writing classes.

Meanwhile, Insider's junior lifestyle reporter Maria Noyen left the UK in 2015 to start a four-year bachelor's degree in journalism at Boston University, also known as BU. Despite being half-American, this was her first time actually living in the US.

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