I have this conversation all the time because now teach foreign language at an institution that is overzealous about education abroad. My point: A student who has never exchanged words with the Chinese only speaking grocer who lives in his neighborhood, but who wants to be sent to China to have an “authentic”…

Dude. You’ve been trolled.

I have major depression, and probably, I think, some kind of emotional regulation disorder (what the author euphemistically calls “feeling feelings at a 10"). But I’m the opposite of this author in terms of what I did with my life: I spent my twenties working and studying abroad (three years in three different…