The Scholar Ship takes students around the world
The Scholar Ship is a passenger ship converted into a floating semester abroad for undergrad and grad students. Completely outfitted with all the things of a typical dorm: laundry, bookstore, coffee shops, and so on. Housing 600 people from all around the world, it will visit eight countries on five continents during its sixteen week expedition. The idea is that you get to see how other people live, and you get to hang out with some other smart people from other places in hope that some of it rubs off on you and some of it rubs off on them, and then, like a desirable avian flu, you take it home and infect your countrymen with brainy tolerance.
The inaugural voyage is September 2007, but with only 600 slots and an international calling, probably you should book now to avoid disappointment, as it were. All the forms you need in order to apply are available online at their web site. Also available are details about the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), a standardized test administered at the beginning and end of each voyage to gauge whether or not their plan actually, you know, is working. [GT]
