In the first place, says Reshma Amalie Gosine '97, people in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago do not wear grass skirts. She laughs now when she remembers the time a fellow student asked her that question. It goes with the territory for international students. Often viewed as curiosities, international students on college campuses in the United States face unique challenges in dealing with feelings of isolation, cultural assimilation, language and an often unfamiliar educational model. Which makes the success of recent Colby students from other nations even more remarkable.
Off the Beaten Path
Few Jan Plan curricula have been more unusual than the two-part program completed by Adam Wolk '97.
Wolk spent the first two weeks of January dogsledding across remote
northwestern Maine, learning, as he put it, "lessons as basic as how not to get
attacked by dogs trying to steal breakfast."
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