Image Source via GQ Magazine/Hendrik Schneider It’s hard not to be charmed by Britain’s newest “It girl” Rina Sawayama. Her eclectic fashion statements, bubbly personality, and upbeat musical stylings grant her all the makings of an international pop star. Over the past year, Sawayama has proven that her star quality transcends her music. With awards […]
Illustration Credit: Eva Dinino Home is Lagos, Nigeria and on most Sunday mornings we’ve just showered and are dressed in our Sunday’s best, getting ready to head to church (if you’re religious) or, have a chill morning filled with slower routines and the relaxing aura of the final day of the weekend. My family and […]
Graphic Credit: Sana Kewalramani Bản Tiếng Việt In all of the business and preparation for graduation, it’s a time to reflect on the most important people in the audience, the ones who pushed us towards that degree–our parents. For international students, bringing our parents to graduation isn’t a two-day or one-night thing, it’s a whole […]
Illustration Credit: Vy Le “Farewell” and “welcome” are terms we use during a transition where one moves from an old environment to a new environment. As most college students will tell you, the transition is terrifying. The past four years have been where I have made the most transitions in my life. Four different countries […]
Photo credit: Chuncheon-si People As a Korean, I have always wondered how such diverse traditions can be created in this small country, the size of America’s one state with 51 million people. After transferring to Temple last year, I realized Korean culture that I took for granted was unique—so unique that people here hardly experience. […]
Cover Photo: Jae-In’s bedroom. Before, occasionally used as a study space, now…a classroom every day. My college life can now be described as an empty campus while moving from one zoom class to another in my bed. I remember the moment I had to watch parents picking up their kids in front of Morgan Hall […]
Image Source: Jung Hawon/AFP This March, Freely Magazine would like to honor women around the world in a special article highlighting important female figures and their lasting legacies worldwide. Everywhere, women are fighting a battle to have a voice, to be treated with respect, and most of all to have rights. Women around the world […]
Illustration credit: Tia Marchiselli / @kiko labayen Whenever I go back to Korea during a school break, my friends ask me questions about Temple as if they were interviewing me for a job: Do they really party every day? Is the campus prettier than Korean colleges? At first, I wouldn’t say I liked answering their […]
It seems like only yesterday that I was hanging the pictures of my friends on the wall to decorate my room. A year later, now I’m sitting in a cozy bed writing about my third and last semester’s goal at Temple University. I still can’t believe I’ll be graduating in four months. Although I’m not […]
Being a college student is more than studying. We have to deal with assignments, grades, friendship, and searching for self-identity. Our time in college comes with a lot of pressure because it is when we think specifically about our future life and career. Given that a semester is considered a four-month-long marathon, it is crucial […]
If you are a Temple student, you might have heard of the International Coffee Hour put on each month; it is a social event that brings together international and domestic students to share free coffee and learn about different cultures from around the world. In this way, the process of serving and enjoying coffee becomes […]
Illustration Credit: Margot Whipps 11,097 km, 13-hour time difference, and 14-hour flight. I had to challenge these numbers to get a new name tag in my life: an international transfer student. In the summer of 2018, I graduated from Kookmin University in South Korea and decided to transfer to Temple University in the spring of […]
In June 2019, Temple University’s Center for Language and Culture welcomed high school students from across the world to participate in EducationUSA Academy, a State Department program to help international students learn about American culture and how to apply for American universities. During their stay, Freely Magazine held an essay contest asking students to reflect […]
In June 2019, Temple University’s Center for Language and Culture welcomed high school students from across the world to participate in EducationUSA Academy, a State Department program to help international students learn about American culture and how to apply for American universities. During their stay, Freely Magazine held an essay contest asking students to reflect […]
In June 2019, Temple University’s Center for Language and Culture welcomed high school students from across the world to participate in EducationUSA Academy, a State Department program to help international students learn about American culture and how to apply for American universities. During their stay, Freely Magazine held an essay contest asking students to reflect […]
While I consider myself a Mexican since I was born and spent my childhood in that country, in reality I became who I am in a midwest town in Indiana called Terre Haute. I spent all my teenage years there, enjoying and learning from the people who gave me and my family a warm welcome […]
Painting “The Arrival of Cortes at Veracruz and the Reception by Moctezuma’s Ambassadors”, Library of Congress. 2019 marks the 500-year anniversary of the arrival of the Spaniards to modern Mexican territory, and the observance of the so-called “conquest Mexico” has triggered a debate in the county of whether the people of Mexico should commemorate the […]
6 a.m. in the morning, I was standing at the entrance of Prague airport with a huge and heavy backpack sitting on my hips, hiking boots I got on sale only a few days prior and a sweat-free outfit that still had the pungent smell of just bought clothes. A cold wind gently blew from […]
Illustration credit: Peter Naktin I was born in the Czech Republic and lived there for 20 years. I moved to the U.S. after high school and let me tell you, the educational system in the Czech Republic is no joke! While many schools in the Czech Republic use a generic standardized test similar to the […]
Spring break came and went, and with it the stories of people traveling home or spending a great time with their family and friends somewhere in the world. For me, this free week offer the much needed time to relax after a long period of stress and anxiety. However, I still wished to go home. […]
