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Isabel Cowles Murphy
Mar 02, 2026
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In high school, I learned you could skip physics by traveling abroad. They didn’t teach science during the foreign exchange programs, and you wouldn’t have to make it up. I didn’t know much French, so Rennes seemed good. I spent the first six months in Brittany speaking Spanish with a French accent, which is a style of living I prefer: impulsive, improv…

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