Help Me Experience a Semester in Australia!

Merna Abdelhalem Start Date: Apr 4, 2018 - End Date: Aug 21, 2018
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development
  • Study/Degree Abroad
  • Gold Coast QLD, Australia

My Travel Story

by: Merna Abdelhalem Start Date: Apr 4, 2018 - End Date: Aug 21, 2018
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development
  • Study/Degree Abroad
Hey Everyone! My name is Merna and I'm working very hard to come up with the funds to spend my fall 2018 semster at Bond Unitersty in Gold Coat, Australia. Any help is very appreciated! Thank You!


I am a Biology student at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York. After undergrad I plan to attend medical school and become an Oncologist. Working in health care has always been an aspiration of mine. I want to use my education and amazing opportunities to give back to my community. I have a strong desire to not only care for people, but to offer people new chances to lead a better and healthier life. I believe that the best doctors aren’t the ones that prescribe a solution to the patient’s problem, but rather the ones that do everything they possibly can to benefit their patients physical, psychological, and emotional health. My aspiration is to become one of these best doctors. Studying abroad will not only help me grow and mature as a person, but it would also help me on my path to becoming the kind of doctor I dream to be. Being able to live in a different country surrounded by different types of people will help me get a better understanding of how different people operate, think, and act in situations; therefore I will be able to becoming a doctor that can offer the correct and appropriate support to a wider variety of people. I know that studying abroad will widen my worldviews while helping me becoming more open minded to different behaviors and ways of thinking. Hopefully I will be able to pick up on different ways of problem solving and creative thinking from being exposed to different mindsets. Over all, I aim to come back from this experience with more self confidence and life experience that I can share with the people around me and apply to the rest of my education.
  • Gold Coast QLD, Australia