By: Meghan Wenzinger, NURSING ’22 Gift from the World Medical Association after completing the internship. World Medical Association – France While reflecting on the impact of my internship experience on my professional and personal goals, I remembered a question that I was asked in my interview: “You’re studying nursing, which is about as personal as you…
By: Andres Eskenazi, CAS/SEAS ’22 Andres and the Fourier team celebrating with cake during the company’s midterm review event. Fourier Intelligence – Singapore One of my favorite sayings from all times comes from Chinese culture and goes: 世上无难事，只怕有心人 (pinyin: shishang wu nanshi, zhi pa youxinren). In English, the literal translation of this phrase would be “there…
By: Tejaswi Rajanbabu, WHARTON ’24 T-shirts for a Cocoa360 marketing campaign. Cocoa360 – Ghana It was the sweet spot of slowly being able to have a footing in the team and finding your own place for me in July. I was in a comfortable place with my coworkers as well as supervisor, learning a lot about…
By: Gigi Lam, SEAS ’23 Gigi and fellow intern, Justin, with the company director and other team members for their final Zoom meeting. Van Aelst I Nguyen & Partners – Vietnam The past two months as a virtual GRIP internship has been an incredibly valuable experience, for growing my professional interests and allowing me to learn a…
By: Maria Jose Rodriguez Velazquez, CAS ’23 Maria Jose with her team during a coffee chat. Israel Plan Organization – Shanghai, China If you were to visit each of our team members, you would have to trek a whopping 9,544 miles. Your trip would start in Philadelphia, where you would take a 10-hour flight all the…
By: Toya Liu, WHARTON ’23 Toya analyzing multiple articles written in Chinese. Jonathan and Co Capital – Sydney, Australia After being a financial analyst intern at Jonathan and Co Capital for a month, I’ve been able to realize the significant progress I’ve made against the three biggest challenges I faced at the start of my…
By: Katherine Han, WHARTON ’24 Katherine analyzing various data points at her desk setup. Keru – Shanghai, China From interviewing the founder of a social enterprise to working with students on an online consulting project, my internship has helped me explore many aspects of Keru’s business. One project, in particular, allowed me to analyze survey data…
By: Nam Le, CAS ’23 Nam reading a judgment from the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court! Jingsh Law Firm – Beijing, China A major reason I chose to apply to GRIP: Law and International Affairs in Beijing was because I wanted to explore either law or international affairs. I realized the generality of my interest was…
By: Nandika Komirisetti, WHARTON ’24 A portion of Nandika’s completed business model project. RedBeard Talent- Sydney, Australia As I reach the last few days of my global internship, I’m shocked at how quickly the time went by. Reflecting back on the beginning of my internship with RedBeard Talent, I recall feelings of excitement being overshadowed…
By: Cynthia Adhiambo, SEAS ’24 Cynthia anxiously awaiting her first meeting with her supervisor. Sicunet Inc – Seoul, Republic of Korea Although I look calm and relaxed, a lot is going through my head as I sit and wait for the clock to hit 10:00 PM for my first meeting with my supervisor at Sicunet Inc.…