"In every study-abroad program, you're going to find students who just want to drink and sleep around," says Jonah Newman, a senior at Northwestern. "But people traveling to the Middle East, to parts of Asia, to places that are on the world stage-where interesting things are happening-you're going to find more serious students." Newman, who spent the fall of his junior year in Morocco, should know. He's the editor of The 195, a thriving website where more than 100 Northwestern students have chronicled their semesters overseas-studying obstetrics in Chile, TV news in China, Arabic in Jordan. Their tales show that American college students, eyeing an uncertain job market, are turning to study-abroad programs to prepare them for a global economy, in which new cultures, languages, and ways of doing business are critical.
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