SMU undergraduates Lim Jia En from the Lee Kong Chian School of Business and Joanne Ng from the School of Social Sciences, share their thoughts, about their upcoming semester-long student exchange programmes, starting in January 2022, to Beijing and Boston respectively. Within the context of an ongoing global pandemic, both students commented on their parents’ reactions to their impending travels, the precautions they plan to take while overseas, as well as what they hope to achieve with the experience.