Flight 1 of 10
Journey #1
BOS → DUB
Boston to Dublin
- Date
- May 16, 2026
- Departure
- 5:25 PM · BOS
- Arrival
- 4:35 AM +1 day · DUB
- Duration
- 6h 10m
- Airline
- Aer Lingus
- Flight no.
- EI 0132
Overnight arrival in Dublin.
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Study Abroad
Greece 2026
Athens, the islands, and one detour to Rome
5 weeks3 courses, 4.010 flights29h 35m in the air
Route itinerary
10 flights · 29h 35m in the air
Academics
Three courses, one 4.0.
Both Deree courses transferred back to Northeastern for credit. Each card links to the syllabus and the graded work in the archive.
- Campus
- Deree, the American College of Greece
- Neighborhood
- Agia Paraskevi, northern Athens
- Term
- Summer I 2026, May 16 to June 19
MGMT 3530Taken as MG 4057
Project Management
American College of Greece (Deree)
On campus in Agia Paraskevi · 4 semester hours
Planned a Smart Health Monitoring System implementation end to end, from scope definition through deployment strategy, as a graded team project.
Work Breakdown StructureGantt schedulingCritical pathRisk registersStakeholder analysisMicrosoft Project
Syllabus and graded workACCT 2301Taken as AF 3116
Profit Analysis for Managers and Advisors
American College of Greece (Deree)
On campus in Agia Paraskevi · 4 semester hours
Managerial accounting from the decision maker's side: how cost behavior, contribution margin, and variance analysis drive operating choices.
Cost behaviorContribution marginCVP analysisBudgetingVariance analysisRelevant costing
Syllabus and graded workMGSC 2301
Business Statistics
Northeastern University
Run remotely from Athens · 4 semester hours
Taken asynchronously across the time difference while the other two ran on campus. Regression and inference work in SPSS, including the SEC football spending project.
RegressionANOVAHypothesis testingConfidence intervalsSPSS
Syllabus and graded workPhotography
Five weeks, in pictures.
20 sets from the trip. Click any of them to open it full size.
Timeline
How the five weeks ran.
May 16 to 17
Boston to Athens
Overnight through Dublin, landing in Athens the next afternoon. Orientation and moving into housing.
May 18 onward
Classes start at Deree
Project Management and Profit Analysis on campus, Business Statistics remote across the seven-hour difference.
May 30 to Jun 1
Santorini
Two nights in Oia for the caldera sunset, and a full moon over the Aegean on the way back down the steps.
Jun 5 to 7
Crete
Chania old harbor, the Venetian lighthouse at sunset, and the turquoise cove at Seitan Limania.
Jun 13
Rome, same day
Out to Fiumicino in the morning and back to Athens that night: the Colosseum, the Forum, the Pantheon, and St. Peter's in one run.
Jun 16 to 18
Final presentations
Team deliverables and finals for both Deree courses. Finished the term at a 4.0.
Jun 19
Athens to Boston
Back through Dublin, home the same day.
Places
Where the time actually went.
The Acropolis
AthensClimbed it in daylight and saw it lit from Areopagus at night.
Plaka and Monastiraki
AthensThe old quarter under the rock, and the flea market square.
Lycabettus Hill
AthensDinner above the city with the whole basin lit up below.
Filopappou Hill
AthensThe widest view of the Acropolis and the Temple of Hephaestus.
Oia
SantoriniCaldera sunset, blue domes, and the moon over the water after.
Chania
CreteVenetian harbor and the lighthouse at golden hour.
Seitan Limania
CreteA narrow turquoise inlet at the bottom of a steep goat path.
Elafonissi
CreteShallow, clear, and warm enough to walk out a long way.
Rome and the Vatican
ItalyColosseum, Forum, Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Castel Sant'Angelo, St. Peter's.