By: Beverly Deng, Wharton ’21 Beverly (left) on a visit to Tiananmen Square Diversified Agency Services (DAS) – Shanghai, China I was born in Glendale, California in 1999 to a Chinese father and Taiwanese mother. Considering the overwhelming majority of my school district was Asian-American like me, my childhood seemed relatively normal. I grew up spending my…
By: Xavier Lee, SEAS ’22 Xavier (third from right) with members of the Cadence team enjoying lunch in a yurt Cadence Translate – Beijing, China On my first day of work, I’m taking the elevator up to the seventh floor of the office building where my company, Cadence Translate, resides. The doors open up to…
By: Shreya Naraparaju, CAS ’22 GRIP Interns hiking in the Blue Mountains, left to right: Sophie Shen, Mercedes Owens, Ryan Bush, and Shreya Naraparaju University of Sydney, Australia Interning abroad in Sydney, Australia has allowed me to gain a plethora of new experiences, both inside and outside the workplace. I tried a meat pie for…
By: Corey Parker, Wharton ’21 Corey on a visit to Cueva del Esplendor while traveling in Colombia Nextentia – Medellín, Colombia My current internship in Medellín is at a start-up called Nexentia that works to provide calcium encapsulation products to a range of clients both human and animal. Nexentia is a small subdivision of the greater…
By: Stephanie Xie, Wharton ’21 Stephanie Xie (left) with fellow Penn student and summer intern, Vashvi Shah, at the Alibaba Cloud Summit KK Fund – Singapore In my first few weeks of work, I have attended four conferences, three demo days, and countless hawker centers…in short, my internship experience so far has been filled with opportunities to talk…
By: Ryan Bush, CAS ’22 Ryan (right) at the BBC event seen posing with, from left to right, Terri Seow (Vice President Marketing & Insights APAC, BBC Global News), Sharon Zeev Poole (Director, Agent99 PR), Nicole Robertson (Senior Account Director, Agent99 PR), and Zeinab Badawi (BBC Journalist). Agent99 – Sydney, Australia One of the many incredible elements that…
By: Irene Zhang, SEAS ’21 Durian fruit at a market in Shenzhen Shenzhen Hanyang Technology Co.Ltd – China Durian is a fruit famous for its pungent odor and unique flavor. A popular fruit in the humid, tropical climate of Southeast Asia, its memorable odor and taste, it is considered by many to be the smelliest…
By: Brittany Shore, CAS ’21 Brittany appreciating the view from Amman Citadel Generations for Peace – Amman, Jordan I have always been very confident in what I want to do. My interest in international affairs, human rights, and security has been deep set since my childhood as I grew up in a very international community, surrounded…
By: Yina Anyachebelu, Huntsman ’22 Yina with Pilar’s cat in Medellín, Colombia Suyo – Medellín, Colombia When I first got an internship offer in Colombia and started the GRIP self-sourced internship application process, I thought my time abroad would be a daunting experience because of the amount of independence I would have. However, my first week in…
By: Tiffany Hsu, Penn Nursing UNESCO – Paris, France As a child, I never “knew what I wanted to be when I grew up”. I had so many interests and hobbies and didn’t feel like I could commit to only one. When I applied to college, I was still conflicted on choosing a major. Ultimately,…