Through field trips with her art history class, St. Angelo saw in person the works they studied. “I learned so much about Spanish and world history,” she says.
St. Angelo says her semester abroad has changed what she’s looking forward to in her senior year and beyond. For one, she has added being a Syracuse Abroad global ambassador to her busy schedule of academics, club sports and student organizations. And, she enjoys practicing her di lei much-improved Spanish with her friends di lei from the Madrid program.
But the most formative impact, she says, has been a perspective shift: an expansion of what she can imagine as possible. St. Angelo, a native of Rhode Island, says she used to assume she’d stay close to home when starting her career, but her experience abroad has shown her she can explore, and thrive, farther away as well. “I know I want to go into marketing and finance after I graduate—creative business has always been my plan—but living overseas has definitely made me more open to branching out and trying different things,” she says—adding that her summer internship, with the brokerage company Ryan Turner Specialty, will have her working in both Boston and New York City. “I brought back with me a mindset of being positive and really open—it really did broaden my horizons.”
