This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at JHU chapter.
The Beach is vaguely some place you remember, but it’s all a little hazy with a mojito in hand and your toes in actual sand. With that said, here are a dozen reasons why you can take the kid out of Hopkins, but you can’t take Hopkins out of the kid. You know you’re a Hopkins student abroad when…
- You’re not ashamed to be awake when you receive the Today’s Announcements email. Party on, you legal-drinking age student, you.
- You love telling your new abroad friends about how 7/11 is holding up this week. So far so good on the armed robbery front!
- Rush and revelation photos make you believe Hopkins might be a legitimate college experience… but only for a second.
- You’re gearing up for your first finals week where an all-nighter is HIGHLY unlikely.
- You have to explain to people what lacrosse is… and it’s not an easy translation.
- The only thing you have in common with your Hop friends at home is an inability to understand the teacher’s accent-only yours is European Music Culture, and theirs is quantum physics.
- You drastically mis-time every Instagram post, so now neither your Hop friends NOR high school friends will toss you a like.
- You don’t understand why grapes aren’t $8/lb like at Charmar…fresh fruit at a reasonable price? Seems fake, but okay.
- You’re practiced in the art of the head-on-a-swivel and the cross-body-purse-holding— the mean streets of BMore have prepared you for worse than gypsy pickpocketers.
- You finally don’t have to be jealous of everyone’s Restaurant Week outings- nobody can beat eating french bread IN France!
- Elements 2 has you so hyped to talk to your Uber driver…until you find out they don’t have Uber in Madrid. It’s a little harder to get a Spanish taxi driver to put on Fetty Wap…
- You’re no longer impressed by Charmar’s gelato and crepe selection. How could you have ever settled???