The Travel Blog of No-Traveling

I am astounded by the number of friends I have that have had (or will have, or are having) the incredible experience of studying abroad. Studying abroad is something that I have always wanted to do, but probably will not due to super strict Engineering schedules and mega expensive summer study costs*.

Anyway, these friends all have one thing in common (other than studying abroad). They all had study abroad blogs.

Every. Single. Person.

And the thing that really amazes me isn't the blogs at all. I mean, sure those are cool and nifty and a fun way to see what sort of things they do abroad, but, why don't they do that at school too?

So many people end up doing crazy cool things at school and you almost never get to see or hear about it.

Also, how many people would love to see pictures and read about things that happen on their own campus? It's kind of like rediscovering all the things that make college cool.

I've decided I'm going to do that with Pitt. I'm going to blog about the things I do and the people I meet as if I was experiencing Pitt for the first time (kind of)**. It'll be a way for other people to see and experience Pitt from wherever they are too (which, after all, is the idea behind a travel blog).

Plus, this will inspire me to put up pictures, finally, which is something I've been promising to do for a while!

So, I can't wait to get started. I can't wait to show you Pittsburgh: the good, the bad, and the downright crazy***. And to hang you over until the first entry of the No-Traveling blog, here is a picture of what campus looks like right now****:

Here's to Pittsburgh!

--R.

*I was recently accepted to study abroad in Australia for 6 weeks. The program would cover 6 credits of Engineering classes (that could go towards my degree) but would also cost a whopping $11,000. That's how much I pay for a semester of class , which is 15 weeks and 18 credits.
**Study Abroad in Pittsburgh! (How glamorous).
***Pittsburgh can be really fucking crazy. I'm not even kidding.
****This picture was actually taken a year ago. On my phone. But it was taken at roughly the same time (Late October/Early November) so campus really does look like this right now. Also, can you even tell we're in semi-urban Pittsburgh? Didn't think so!