By: Fatima Al Rashed, CAS ’22 Fatima (right) enjoying a meal with fellow interns and colleagues Power Up Gambia Hospital – Bwiam, Gambia The Gambia is one of the most beautiful countries I have ever visited in my life. It is a place that I now call home. Everything is beautiful about The Gambia, but…
By: Stephanie Diaz, CAS ’20 Stephanie (right) with fellow GRIP interns Xavier Lee (left) and Rachel Chu (center) at the Penn Wharton China Center Cadence Translate – Beijing, China When I applied to intern at Cadence Translate, I was primarily interested in the unique role that the company plays in the translation and language services…
By: Heta Patel, CAS ’21 Guatemala Health Initiative – Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala At the wee hour of 5 am, my body jolted to the sound of my alarm going off. Although waking up early wasn’t unusual, (I’ve had to take the 6 am lancha or boat to go to work) today was no ordinary day. We were…
By: Selene Li, CAS ’22 Selene posing in a traditional Japanese yukata University of Tokyo – Japan Before coming to Japan for my research internship, I did not have that much interest in wet lab research. The idea of pipetting solutions with complicated names and helping a postdoc do the work that they did not…
By: Linda Wang, CAS ’22 Lien Centre for Social Innovation – Singapore As an international student, I’ve always known that there is a small chance I won’t be able to get a permanent work visa or a green card, meaning I’ll have to work and live somewhere outside of the U.S. after graduation. I’ve kept…
By: Anjalee Bhuyan, CAS ’22 Anjalee (third from left) shares a meal between conducting surveys in The Gambia Gambia Goat Dairy – Banjul, Gambia Conducting a baseline nutrition survey in the village community Sanyang, The Gambia was the goal of my two-month internship, so seeing the culmination of my efforts over the course of the summer…
By: Neelima Paleti, CAS ’21 Neelima Paleti conducting fieldwork in Wahalkada, a small village in Sri Lanka International Center for Ethnic Studies – Kandy, Sri Lanka Sitting on the bumpy back of a bus with the dry air of Sri Lanka blowing against my face, I typed “Wahalkada” into Google Maps on my phone. I…
By: Melissa Sullivan, Nursing ’20 Melissa (left) with fellow GRIP students Anna Bennett, Jessica Korducki, and Nora Hennessy Trinity College Dublin – Ireland With the last name Sullivan, it is pretty clear I have some Irish ancestry. Besides listening to Celtic Woman and going to Irish shows every once in a while, though, I never…
By: Amy Yang, Wharton ’22 Amy (second from left) with Lynk at RISE, a tech conference in Asia Lynk – Hong Kong My time at Lynk Global–a startup that helps consulting agencies find industry experts–has been filled with memorable interactions, but by far one of the most unforgettable experiences happened at RISE, the biggest tech…
By: Anika Bull, CAS ’21 Association de Lutte Contre le Sida – Rabat, Morocco Wandering through the streets of Rabat, my roommate and I, both blonde students speaking to each other in German or English, clearly stood out as foreigners. Whether it was our first day in Morocco or five weeks into our program, we…