By: Dushaun Thompson, CAS ’24 Dushaun in Lisbon University of Minho Law School, Portugal On the one hand, Braga has provided me the opportunity and resources to pique my academic curiosity and consider my future aspirations in greater depth. This is more or less what I expected from this internship, and it has delivered well…
By: Eesha Balar, CAS ’24 Gambia River lookout. Power Up Gambia, The Gambia It’s been a little more than a week already! Honestly, I can’t tell if it went by quickly or slowly, as I’m still trying to get adjusted to living here. I also still can’t believe I’m across the Atlantic, on a totally…
By: Wangari Mbuthia, SEAS ’25 Me at Marina Bay Engineering Research in Singapore If someone would have told me this time last year that I would be doing an engineering research program in Singapore, I wouldn’t have believed it. But rest assured here I am, two weeks in, and it has been an incredible experience.…
By: Nikola Datkova, CAS ’25 Bananas on bicycle Gashora Girls Academy of Science and Technology, Rwanda The exam starts at 8 o’clock. The early birds show up at 7.55 am, most students won’t be ready until 8.05 am, the teacher enters the room at 8.10 am—and nobody makes a big deal out of it. Not…
By: Gabriella Gibson, Wharton ’25 Gabriella diving in Australia Business in Sydney, Australia A summer of core memories. That is how I would describe my GRIP experience in Sydney, Australia. I grew up putting together puzzles of the Opera House and watching the fireworks in Sydney as Australians celebrated the new year. I watched countless…
By: Haerin So, Wharton ’25 Haerin and fellow GRIP interns Monika, Lucas, Davis, and Doug at the Pylon Lookout over the Sydney Harbour Bridge Business in Sydney, Australia If I had to describe my GRIP experience in Sydney in one word, it would be: present. Oftentimes at Penn and in college in general, I felt…
By: Anusha Mathur, College ’25 Anusha and a llama in Salta Argentina Social Impact in Buenos Aires, Argentina The immigrant experience is often simplified into cliches, like booking a one-way ticket and never looking back. I always wondered what it might be like to move to a new country and this past summer, I got a…
By: Zoe Lu, Wharton ’25 Zoe and friend kayaking in Halong Bay Environmental Sustainability in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam To pre-internship Zoe: Since two months seems so short, you probably won’t expect to find a second home in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) this summer. Although it will be hard to have to be so…
By: Zoe Lu, Wharton ’25 Zoe participating in the Tower of Hanoi team relay Environmental Sustainability in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam I never expected to like the startup culture as much as I do now. As someone who enjoys predictability and structure, I wasn’t sure if the flexibility of startup work would fit me. However,…
By: Krystal Li, SEAS ’25 Krystal in the lab. Engineering Research in Singapore As part of the Engineering Research in Singapore program, I am doing research at the National University of Singapore (NUS) for 2 months. The research project I’ve been assigned to is called decentralized traffic signal control for urban mobility under professor Guillaume…