WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU | SEMESTER AT SEA 

"I'm sure all of you are binge watching semester at sea videos" how dare you call me out like this

It's not weird at all that you're sad about being back. That has nothing to do with being ungrateful. Yes, you've had an amazing experience and you've enjoyed it, but that doesn't mean that you're not allowed to miss it. You've lived a 'different' life for almost four months, people can't expect you to just forget about that and carry on with the life you left for that amount of time. Thank you for this video Nena! I'll probably be on the Fall'21 voyage and I'm over excited, video's like this make me want to go even more. Thanks for being real with us and showing us the hard site as well! xx

omg i saw i saw all of your videos i made a cost chart because i may be 12 but when im 20 i will go to sas!!!

Nice follow up just after a year later. I am actually considering teaching on the ship for a semester when I retire. Why? Because this is a college experience that I never had. I had to work while I was in school, but I am grateful for a successful career. I am jealous of your experience and how the 4 months allowed you to experience something wonderful. What you need to do now is carry it on and learn what you found out about yourself and others. Use the experience to move forward and life will only get better, but never forget the memory. How could you,? You did a Vlog. All I have are photos of my own experiences, but those photos are no different than the Vlog. Bungee jumping.... Wow, glad you lived through that and that's one of many experiences during the 4 months that made the semester memorable. Stay well, life is short enjoy it... You are doing fine and hope doing this vlog helped you and others, like myself, chiming in on your experience. Imagine the Spring 2020 SAS class? They were in a middle of a global pandemic and we're just slowing getting out of it now... We hope and pray...stay well and safe...

I’ve literally watched all of your semester at sea videos! You are so inspiring by being so real, so honest, so open! God is working miracles in your life, and He has bigger plans for you! The SAS was step one, step two is beginning! ❤️

Thank you for your honesty :) I am graduating in May and there are a lot of big changes coming in my life. In the fall I will be starting my master's degree for which I am both very nervous and excited for. I really appreciated your perspective on 'reentry'. Great things are coming!

I can totally understand your feelings. After Highschool I have been to New Zealand for 6 months by myself and it was sonder the best experience of my life even though I really enjoy college. Everything felt so wrong, when I came home. The bad thing was that all of my Highschool friends haven‘t really been interested in what I have done and we just haven‘t as much in common anymore. So now I‘m not friends with them anymore, but I have new friends in college that I enjoy being around and that I know will be there for me even after college. You will always remember this amazing time!

listening to you talk is so refreshing, you're so articulate with your words! i'm no where near going on sas but i think what you said can apply to so many situations. i loved the video!!

I think what you experienced was an intensive experience. There are many intensive experiences you can find. My intensive Masters Nursing was so intensive and all-consuming, plus life-changing, and when it ended I think I felt as you have done after Semester at Sea. However, I have done two month residential intensives in swing dance in Sweden which were a blast. I did a three month intensive learning French in Tahiti. I’ve done intensives in Spanish in Mexico and Costa Rica. Life offers you intensives if you want them - and almost all are a whole bunch cheaper than Semester at Sea! You’ll feel exhilarated while doing them, meet lots of people, have those strange experiences and find things you didn’t know to look for, and then you’ll go through the return-to-reality phase. No one understands this unless they too have done something equivalent. Clearly, you enjoy the intensive experience, and how it lets you bond with others, learn deeper info about what you’re interested in than you’d otherwise get, and find so many little connections you never expected. I say, take the sadness, and figure out how to use it self-reflectively, as this video shows you have. Then find another intensive. It won’t be the same. The residential experience was part of what made your SAS so intense, plus the isolation from others for the 2 1/2 months plus the shared decisions, shared meals, shared activities, shared expectations, shared goals, and shared feeling that life is ahead of you. I’m sure the SAS showed you a version of yourself that you liked, and a life you loved. You can have that! Figure out how! Not easy. But it’s there. Thanks for sharing your feelings, which I related too - although no two people can ever fully understand another’s feelings. My relatives & friends had no clue what to ask either. How could they have done? I can’t wait for my next intensive, whatever it is, and I’m now 56! Antique!

Omgggg this video was legit so eye-opening and soooo interesting! Thanks for sharing boo!

This video taught me what I need to ask to people who've had big experiences and are returning from them. I had a cousin who went to England for 6 months a few years ago and another cousin who is working in Maui and plans to stay for 2-3 years

I just applied to go on the Spring 2021 voyage of Semester at Sea and I've literally been watching all of the informational videos on your channel and this one just made me sob and I haven't even gone on the voyage yet!

I'm going on Spring 2021! I'm so nervous and excited. Thank you so much for these videos.

i see all the taylor stuff in the background, hehe i love it!

Can you make a video all about classes? Like how classes work on ship? Are there any exams or quizzes or presentations? Thank you ❤️

when in college did you go on sas? like which year and semester. i'm a junior in high school and am currently thinking about getting a job to save for sas / pitch in money to help pay so i'm curious as to when you went

looking forward to hopefully going someday

Do you think there is a difference if you were to go in the spring instead of the fall since you have the summer to decompress and you’re not returning to second semester and a short break?

i really wanna do this for the fall:( I'm scared that my parents will say no but I'm gonna try my hardest so they can say yes and if I go I'm gonna start saving money because this is an oppertunityy once of a lifetime.

thoughts on this semester at sea with the virus outbreak ?

is there anything you learned about yourself during or after sas?

would you suggest going on semester at sea second semester senior year? I want to go on it senior year, but I'm not sure what semester. I don't want to come back and still have one semester to go, but I also don't want to come back and have no where to go. What would you suggest? If there were any seniors that you knew of, how did their reentry go? thank you so much, I love your videos!!

Would you go back on SAS as a lifelong learner?

Love your channel! Been watching it from the start it made me so excited for Semester at Sea, before I went on it this past Fall'19. I started up my own youtube to recap my experience as well. Would love if you and anyone else would give it a look and leave me some recommendations to grow it. :)

What happens when you get sick on the ship? Do you just not go to class?

Anyone else is goin on spring 21 voyage?

I’m pretty sure mom did not want to know more about how you went bungee jumping lol

just applied for SASSP21!!