By: Alice He, SEAS ’23 Unique Team Building – Brisbane, Australia It brings me a lot of sadness that my VIA internship has come to an end. This internship has been such a meaningful global experience and has been everything I was hoping for and so much more. I am grateful for all of the…
By: Sabrina Tian, CAS ’22 Sabrina with a variety of FLIP media content. FLIP Productions -Tokyo, Japan As a Content Creation Intern for FLIP Productions in Tokyo, I’ve been able to research different aspects of Japanese life for their social media, create social media graphics for their tourism and entrepreneurship guide, and design vector illustrations to…
By: Jessie Zou, Wharton ’23 Jessie at her makeshift home office completing projects. B&D Law Firm – Beijing, China Hi everyone! I am a rising junior studying legal studies and finance at Wharton. I have always been interested in law and considered a career in law, so I really wanted to have some hands-on experience to see…
By: Egret Jin, SEAS ’23 Screenshot of a desktop with many pages open. Saib – Seoul, Republic of Korea When I first got my internship request I felt incredibly nervous. I was excited, of course, to embark on a new global experience, but I had no idea what to expect. Even though it would be…
By: Andres Eskenazi, CAS/SEAS ’22 Andres during one of his weekly meetings with a new zoom background sporting Fourier Intelligence’s logo. Fourier Intelligence – Singapore One of my favorite sayings from Chinese culture goes: 不经历风雨怎么见彩虹 (pinyin: bu jingli fengyu zenme jian caihong). In English, the literal translation of this phrase would be “if you don’t experience wind…
By: Penn Abroad Erin Feeney in Ireland Global experiences can take many forms as students pursue their academic, professional, and personal goals. Through the Semester Abroad (SA) program, Penn students from across schools have spent a semester or year taking on coursework in new environments, challenging themselves, and building relationships and connections to new global communities.…
By: Halla Elkhwad, Wharton ’24 CORINNE – Stockholm, Sweden Alongside my internship this summer, I found it important to take some time to explore the local culture I was being exposed to. As a supplement to our internship experience, Absolute Internship provided interns with instructive modules on the cities in which our companies are located. My internship is…
By: Hannah Gu, Nursing ’23 Hannah’s presentation notes in both Spanish and English. Fundación Casa de Los Niños – Heredia, Costa Rica I feel more confident in my Spanish speaking abilities and am more comfortable making mistakes in the language. These abilities will definitely help me as I work in hospitals and encounter diverse patients…
By: Keerthi Jayaraman, CAS ‘23 Keerthi enjoying the docuseries “Street Food: Latin America” on Netflix and learning about Argentine cuisine from the Buenos Aires episode. Fundación Instituto David Hume – Buenos Aires, Argentina ¿Cómo se dice…? is a phrase I have learned to be comfortable with using in my Buenos Aires-based internship. This Spanish phrase roughly translates…
By: Angela Shen, Huntsman ’24 Angela seated by the windows at her local public library, where she completes her work for Grandall Law Firm. Grandall Law Firm – Beijing, China “Do you speak Chinese?” One of the first questions out of my interviewer’s mouth as I looked dutifully at his image on my phone screen,…