As the 2024 presidential election draws near, the issues of immigration and travel have once again come into the national spotlight. Former President and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has often taken hardline stances on immigration, rhetoric that in the past, has sometimes extended to his policies surrounding student visas.
On Oct. 1, four Mount Holyoke College students who recently returned from studying abroad gathered in Ciruti 109 to present their experiences at the Japan Study Abroad Information Session. While the experience of studying abroad isn’t an uncommon one at the College — over 40% of students will have studied abroad by the time they cross the stage at Commencement — only seven of the over 150 study abroad programs available to Mount Holyoke College students are located in Japan. Mount Holyoke News interviewed two of the students who presented to understand their experiences, stories and takeaways from studying in Japan.
