Abroad Bible is the study-abroad guide students actually pass down — a way to map where you've been, share the places worth going, and find real, road-tested advice for your semester abroad, from the students who went before you.
It started as a Google Doc
Every study-abroad cohort builds the same thing: a scrappy, crowdsourced doc of the cafe with the good wifi, the neighborhood worth living in, the day trip that's actually worth the train ticket, the bar that doesn't card too hard. It gets passed from the students flying home to the ones just landing — and it's gold. Abroad Bible exists to turn that word-of-mouth into something you can actually browse.
What you can do here
The idea is simple: make a semester abroad legible.
Map the countries and cities you’ve studied and traveled in — your own world, filled in.
Share the spots worth recommending, and see where other students have been.
Read honest city guides written by students who actually lived there.
Sort the practical stuff — budgets, getting around, what to book — before you go.
Who’s behind it — and why
One person, who's been exactly where you are. If you've done a semester abroad, you know the ritual: posting in the Facebook group — "anyone been to Interlaken? recommendations??" — forwarding a friend-of-a-friend's Google Doc with the good restaurants, screenshotting a packing list from someone's story, digging through a group chat for that hostel somebody mentioned in October. The advice was always out there; it was just scattered across docs, threads, emails, and other people's memories — and it evaporated the moment those people flew home. Abroad Bible is an attempt to bring all of it under one roof: organized, current, and searchable instead of forwarded and forgotten.
Still early
Abroad Bible is young and growing. If something’s missing, broken, or could be better, we genuinely want to hear it — that feedback shapes what gets built next. Find us on the Contact page.