MC’s New Study Abroad Program is out of This World

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With our spring semester coming to a close and a change to the head director this past spring, Manhattan College’s Study Abroad department was able to speak with the Quadrangle before registration opens up next week to encourage and let students know to keep their calendar open for a new program surrounding our solar system.

Dr. Forsure A. Hummanman, a professor in our new extraterrestrial major, told the Quad about his new interactive project with students this year, where he tested their survival instincts in space with a virtual reality headset in the fall.

“It’s an idea we have been playing with for a while in this department.” Humanman said. “We never thought students would want to participate in our beta testing last semester.”

Senior aerospace engineer Mark Armstrong attended the class last fall and told the Quad how his fall semester in Science 151 reached back to his family.

“Dr. Humanman was definitely the weirdest professor I have ever had at Manhattan. He was always speaking in some language I didn’t recognize on the phone.” Armstrong said. “My dad was also pretty upset when he found out he paid for this class to be held in front of a green screen provided by the MCTV crew. I guess it’s cool that the summer class is actually flying out there though.”

This year, Dr. Humanman is new to the Jasper community but already makes a memorable imprint he could not create elsewhere.

“I moved here not that long ago from a gated community in Nevada.” Humanman explained. “Where I’m from, any talk about space travel and life up there is frowned upon. But thankfully people here want to hear what you have to say about outer space and donate in any way possible to send students and I to the moon.”

Dr. Sailor Moon, an astronomy professor at MC, works alongside Dr. Humanman to take her study abroad students around before hitting the moon as a final destination.

“A friend of mine moved out to Venus, Italy, and she will be showing me around this summer and my students as well,” Moon expressed. “The last few days of our program, we plan to meet with Dr. Humanman and his class.”

Cleo Sertori, a sophomore aquatic creature major specializing in mermaids, informed the Quad she would not be participating in any study abroad program at MC that dealt with the moon.

“It freaks my roommates Emma Gilbert and Rikki Chadwick out as well.” Sertori said. “We kind of all have a superstition about full moons and how they make everyone in our major go completely insane and unlike themselves.”

This summer’s study abroad sessions will be available for registration after students return from Easter Break. To keep up with more planets and dates, follow @mcstudyabroadtakesonouterspace on Twitter.