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: Joseph Squillaro, CAS ’21 Joseph standing in front of Skógafoss Waterfall in Iceland Iceland is a place not just to be studied, but to be experienced. Through the PGS to Iceland this past Spring, I was able to do both under the lens of environmental sustainability and geology. Yet it wasn’t just the lens of…
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: Erin Feeney, CAS ’20 Erin (left) and her brother in Dublin, Ireland Semester Abroad Trinity College Dublin When I began my studies at Penn as a freshman in 2016, studying abroad was never part of my four-year plan. I did find the idea of such an experience appealing. However, as a member of the…
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…
By: Bilaal Azeer, CAS ’22 Bilaal by the Bahai Lotus Temple in New Delhi, India PGS – The City of Delhi: New, Old, and Unmapped Travel to India Through the overwhelming hustle and bustle, I felt the incessant horns take over with their blasting volume, overshadowing the sound of the bus engine running. My troubles were…
By: Michaela Tranfield, King’s College London Michaela (left) and a fellow exchange student in Center City Philadelphia Looking back to May 2018, just over a year ago at the time of writing this post, I had just submitted my study abroad application. I remember feeling as though an opportunity I had wanted for so long…
By: Ailbhe Yasmin Wallis, CAS ’21 PGS – Case Studies in Environmental Sustainability Travel to Iceland As an avid hiker, aspiring nature photographer, and now a rising senior in the Earth Science major, I have always considered myself to be an outdoorsy type. When I was accepted to Penn two years ago, I was an idealistic…
By: Rebecca Zaynidinova, CAS ’21 Rebecca (left) with housemates in Seoul, South Korea Rebecca Zaynidinova is one of the Semester Abroad Global Correspondents, writing and sharing her experience abroad during the Fall 2019 semester. Follow along with the group of correspondents on our blog and look out for their student takeovers on the @pennabroad Instagram. Semester Abroad Yonsei…