Haley Herbig

Haley Herbig

International Relations and Political Science, ’17

I spent a year in Ulsan, South Korea in 2015. I didn’t know any Korean when I got there and was the only American at the university for the first semester. I got a scholarship to study abroad but part of the scholarship is that you have to take a language course. The first course I didn’t do too hot in. For the second semester, I took a more intensive course on the language. The professors were a lot more helpful so I did much better. Their grammar is completely different. It’s a lot harder to learn than Chinese and I’ve learned Chinese.

 

I still keep in touch with the first two people I met in Korea, Simon and John, who met me at the airport when I first arrived. We were like the three musketeers when I was there. If you have really close friends that are older than you, as a girl, you call them “oppa,” which means “older brother.” So I always called them “oppa.” I was pretty fluent in Korean by the time I left there.

Why Heidelberg?

I liked it and how campus was smaller than most places I visited. I thought it was great how the professors were willing to sit down and talk with you. I learn better that way rather than a giant group or class.

Haley ended up at Heidelberg by way of both Seattle, Washington, and Fort Worth, Texas. She is a member of the Philalethean Society. She is enrolled overseas once again to pursue her master's degree in International Relations, though she’s keeping the school a secret until graduation.