The experience of living and studying in another country was so eye-opening ... [it] tested preconceptions and habits I wasn't even aware were so ingrained in me," says Cynthia Perras (IES Paris, 1981). - See more at: https://www.iesabroad.org/study-abroad/news/benefits-study-abroad#sthash.Stz75PEF.Kc7XelDZ.dpuf