By: Vaibhav Desikan, CAS ’22 Vaibhav in a weekly meeting with his fellow interns at RACI. RACI – Buenos Aires, Argentina I just finished the first two weeks of my internship with The Argentine Network for International Cooperation (RACI, its Spanish acronym), and the experiences with the organization have been quite fulfilling. From learning Spanish from…
By: Santiago Dassen, Wharton ’22 Booster2Success – Paris, France In the last few weeks as an intern at Booster2Success, I have experienced French culture through the events and communication projects that I have been working on. This includes discovering a new Parisian neighborhood, new art, literature, and music that didn’t know despite having attended a…
By: Kristina Gorel, CAS ’23 Kristina (top right) in her typical weekly meeting with Tricia (top left), her supervisor, and Jessica (bottom), the other intern on the team. Hecho Por Nosotros & animaná – Buenos Aires, Argentina As soon as I had arrived at Penn as a freshman, I had begun hearing about GRIP internships and…
By: Sarah Diaz, CAS ’23 University of Auckland – New Zealand For the entirety of the program, I will be helping Professor Linda Tyler of the University of Auckland and the Auckland Art Gallery prepare an upcoming exhibition on Lucy Wertheim and the one-hundred-some works she donated to the Gallery, which makes up one of…
By: Keerthi Jayaraman, CAS ‘23 Keerthi sitting at her desk at home in New Jersey. Fundación Instituto David Hume – Buenos Aires, Argentina As the Indian sun burned my skin, I barely registered my discomfort in the city of Chennai when enthusiastic girls shouted “Akka!” (“older sister” in Tamil) as they raised their hands in…
By: Rachael Chansler, Nursing ’23 Rachael enjoying a plate of boxty while working on the literature review for the project. Nursing Research in Dublin – Ireland This summer, I had the privilege of working with an amazing team based out of Trinity College Dublin. Professor Eimear McGlinchey, my PI, and Holley Dennehy and Andrew Allen,…
By: Nina (Yichen) Wei, CAS ’23 Nina working remotely from Philly. NoCamels.com – Herzliya, Israel For the past two weeks, I have been working as an intern for NoCamels.com, a news website covering innovation and technology from Israel. So far, my task focuses on writing weekly news features and daily news briefs on developments in the…
By: Emily Grossarth, Huntsmans ’24 Emily hard at work. Sempli – Medellin, Colombia Over the course of the past two weeks, I have had the pleasure of interning for Sempli, the leading online lending platform for small businesses in Colombia. Although I have been conducting my internship from my childhood bedroom in New Jersey, the…
By: Angela Lao, CAS ’23 Angela listening to a PI research presentation at night at her childhood desk. Nursing Research in Dublin – Ireland After the daily TV show my dad watches at 9:30 pm in Macau time, he usually walks into my room and asks what I am doing. Subconsciously, I “shh” him in…
By: Brian Vu, CAS ’22 Brian’s workspace for the duration of his internship. Hanoi University of Public Health – Vietnam As a Vietnamese person born and raised in the United States (or Việt kiều as the locals call it, which translates to “overseas Vietnamese”), the only times I have traveled to my motherland were during…