 Hello, my name is Kozoe Sasaki. I'm the assistant director for Student Exchange. I will be your first contact when you are considering exchange. Student Exchange is a program that students pay tuition to OSU and they will travel abroad to their selected country. The experience to go abroad can't really be compared to anything else. It really is just, it's so valuable to your whole education here. The people that you meet, the things that you see, and the really the qualities that you will gain from having that experience that will help you with your rest of your school here as well as your future in getting a job and really being an asset out there in the business world. It's a really great opportunity for anyone, I think anyone could benefit from it. They'll find their place at whatever university they choose and really click with either the people from that country or other exchange students. With Student Exchange you are able to earn credits abroad that will be applied to your degree and it includes from major courses to GCs and electives. The Cyber Exchange program that really fit what I needed because one of the biggest obstacles in being able to get this opportunity was definitely money and the expense of going abroad but the Cyber Exchange program really financially is the best option here in Ohio State because the only difference is you know you're paying the same tuition and there's also so many different choices of countries and cities that you can go to all around the world. Almost too many choices, it was way hard to choose. It was definitely a great program. The opportunities that people can get from studying abroad, there's really no price to it because they get an experience that you can't get inside of a classroom in Ohio. I think I grew in my confidence just as a person and as a business professional going abroad and having that experience really gave me a wider perspective of the world and kind of made me think more is possible for my career. It kind of made the world seem smaller in a sense. So going abroad, I could see myself working abroad someday or at least having relations with other people in different countries with whatever company I'm working for here in the US. We read the paper and one day the Wall Street is up, the other day Wall Street is down. We don't even know what's going on anymore and the reason why we don't know what's going on anymore is because all these different economies are interdependent one another. We have about 30 partners around the world including Asia, Europe, South America. So there were a lot of options that the students could choose from. They can learn in another education system in the different host institutions, ones that are very different from the US. They also have a chance to immerse themselves into a new different culture and learn a new way of living or also learn a new way of business, how business is done in a different country. So those kind of learnings are what they can get out of student exchange. You know this has definitely had a big effect on my future career plans. Just definitely that I can vouch as a senior and international experience is very valued by employers. When you have that on your resume it really does make you stand out amongst the other students here in Ohio State. And I actually had a great opportunity when I was studying abroad. I was in Italy for four months and I was there in the fall. And the fall is the big recruiting time for many employers especially for business. And so I really wanted to not get behind on the job search and I made some good contacts and I actually ended up having a Skype interview while I was in Italy with the company that I really wanted to job with. And I actually had the Skype interview in my room. I just set up my computer and I had like three different final interviews and it worked out in my favor. I got the job. But it definitely has really benefited me, not just in what I got from the experience but from what it says about me and has been some different qualities that I can show to employers to help me get the job as well as moving forward in my career in the areas that I want to. Between a student that was graduated from Ohio State that has never been abroad and a student that spent a year in China or a year in India or a year in Germany or Italy and that speaks foreign languages and that was exposed to foreign culture there is definitely a big, big, big value in that.