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Inbound
Your first 72 hours in Kingston
SIM, bus pass, groceries and your first friends: the inbound checklist, hour by hour.
Surviving
SIMs, ranked
Student eSIMs and prepaid plans across our partner countries, ranked by price and setup pain.
Rankings
The Exchange Report: Smith partner schools ranked by students
Built on Queen's exchange survey data: which schools returnees would pick again.
Surviving
Budgeting your exchange: rent, food, travel
The three-bucket budget every returnee wishes they'd used from week one.
Choosing
What I wish I knew before Grenoble
A returnee story: ski passes, French paperwork and the friends who made the semester.
Choosing
Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai or Taipei? Choosing an East Asia exchange
Five Smith partner cities, five very different semesters. How to pick the one that fits you.
Surviving
Hong Kong on a student budget: an HKUST returnee's guide
The world's priciest rent market, and how exchange students still make it work.