At my school, studying abroad is a pretty big deal. There are seven programs offered: Australasia, Europe, Greece, Florence, Latin America, Paris and Zambia. You are "studying" in another country for three to four months. Why would anyone want to put themselves through that? I experienced several oddities when I studied in Australia.

1. You eat the strangest food.

Seriously, who would want to branch out and eat that adorable kangaroo—which does not taste too bad I might add. They say it tastes just like chicken, but it really just tastes like kangaroo. Wait, in Cambodia you have Ox? Bye.

2. New animals everywhere.

Koalas and wallabies? Come on. Nobody wants to see them or their cute faces. Why would you want a picture with an animal that does not hang around in the states? Gross, beautiful creatures.

3. Your passport becomes too cluttered.

You are minding your own business when, all of a sudden, you have fallen off of a ledge. Luckily you are attached by a couple of rubber bands that catch you 134 meters down. An hour later you are pushed off of another ledge in an uncomfortable harness, only to swing on a 300 meter arc. Whew. How miserable.

4. The views are the absolute worst.

If you come from Texas, you are used to a lot of flat. So being somewhere else with a skyline created from mountains is too much to take. It is just repulsive, the snow. It is repulsive, the Opera House. The Great Barrier Reef is repulsive.

5. Picking out souvenirs is really terrible

This pair of elephant pants, that pair of elephant pants. $7 for both? No way, I'll give you $3. That boomerang on the top shelf will not take up any space in my suitcase, but I could get something else and put it in that space. A coin bag made of kangaroo scrotum, how could they even allow it?

And do not forget about family and close friends. They did not even accompany me. Why should they get a remembrance of the greatest few months of my life?

6. You pretty much wasted months of your precious academic career by only going to a couple of class meetings

Studying abroad is such a cheat. I rarely even go to class, but I earned 16 hours? I only took two finals! Instead, they had us go to sheep farms and forts and experience the culture first hand. What a cop-out.

Studying abroad is one of the worst things you can do. Why would you want to go to countries 8,000 miles away? Why would you want to try so many new foods? Why would you want to spend hundreds of dollars jumping out of the sky, off of ledges, or into the ocean? But if that tickles your fancy, be my guest.