If you're packing for a semester abroad, or for a couple of month internship, do you actually need to pack a laptop with you? The answer very much depends on the type of program that you are planning to go and take part in, and may not be what you think.
Read MoreI studied German in school for 7 years before I, in a massive rush to get some bit of paperwork sorted out for the university as a student abroad, ran down to the library computer lab, sat down, and misspelled my email password about half a dozen times due to the German keyboard I was working with inverting the positions of the z and y keys. It turned out that in all that time, despite knowing intuitively that German keyboards had a different layout, using the German language settings in my computer’s word processor, and turning on the German keyboard option on my phone, I’d never actually tried using a full size German computer keyboard. And it took another couple of years to actually get good at using one.
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