By: Selene Li, CAS ’22 Selene at the Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine in Kyoto Campbell Lab at University of Tokyo – Japan Penn Abroad Leader Selene Li, reflects on her experience and offers key lessons and advice for making the most of your time abroad. Make the most of each day When I compare my eight…
By: Needhi Mehta, CAS ’20 Needhi (third from left) and other GRIP interns taking a hike up Mount Batur in Bali, Indonesia Lien Centre for Social Innovation – Singapore “Jhavadho, je che eh che!”- “Let it go, it is what it is” I hear my aunt tell my mother when she reminisces for a second on…
By: Neelu Paleti, CAS ’21 Neelu (right) conducting fieldwork in Sri Lanka with a fellow research assistant from Sri Lanka. International Center for Ethnic Studies – Kandy, Sri Lanka Despite the wind blowing around me, beads of sweat formed on my forehead as I sat waiting for my first interview. This wasn’t like any of the previous…
By: Mariana Velasco, Huntsman ’22 University of Minho Law School – Braga, Portugal As an intern at the Law School at the University of Minho I have been able to work in multiple projects, but I would like to focus on my favorite one so far. The first couple of weeks I had the incredible…
By: Sophie Thorel, Wharton ’21 Drishti Works – Mumbai, India Come 1:30 pm, I’m seized with the classic excitement derived from both stomach and mind: where to for lunch today? Every day my lunch break brings new flavors and textures: from dosas with coconut chutney, to thepla and moong and chaat and idli and dozens…
By: Alana Adams, CAS ’20 Alana Adams (back row, third from left) and other GRIP interns and Ashoka co-workers Ashoka – Mexico City, Mexico This summer, I had the privilege of working for Ashoka at the Impact Hub in Mexico City. What struck me, not only about the Ashoka, but the Impact Hub itself, was…
By: Leechen Zhu, CAS ’21 Environmental Sustainability in Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam I faced baskets and baskets of green mangoes. Only green mangoes. I didn’t even know green mangoes of this shape could be ripe. The vendor pointed at each one and rattled off the list of varieties, not that…
By: Shreya Naraparaju, CAS ’22 Business in Sydney – Sydney, Australia If you were to ask any of my friends to describe me, the last word they would probably use is reckless. As someone who doesn’t like taking risks, I always go into any situation with a set plan (in addition to a plan b,…
By: Cindy Luo, CAS ’20 PGS – Multiple GRIP – Legal Research in Braga – Braga, Portugal I look back at my college career as a senior, and I am privileged and grateful to have had a plethora of global experiences and opportunities through Penn. And each time that I find myself in a completely…
By: Shaila Lothe, CAS ’22 Social Impact in Buenos Aires – Buenos Aires, Argentina Before my internship in Buenos Aires, I was dreading the idea of eating dinner every day at 9 PM. As someone who normally eats around 6 or 7 PM, I wondered how Argentines went from lunch at 2 PM to dinner…