By: Michael Lin, CAS ’22 Michael in Shangai, China Keru – Shanghai, China Click. Angsty passengers instantly threw off their seatbelts and hurried off the plane, unlocking themselves a world of towering concrete, vibrant lights, rampant commercialism, and very long lines. Flutter. People shuffled through the airport in every and all directions, like autumn leaves…
By: Julianna Shinnick, Penn Nursing Julianna visiting a monastery in Arequipa, Peru Zoonotic Diseases Field Laboratory – Arequipa, Peru This summer, I am working on research about Chagas’ Disease in Arequipa, Peru. The work itself is familiar, as I have been working with the team from Philadelphia for several months now. We are preparing an intervention…
By: Oliver Osei-Asibey, Wharton ’22 Oliver in Colombia OPENLAB – Medellín, Colombia Just before coming to Medellín, I was in Rwanda for 18 days as part of a Penn Engineering service learning trip. And just before this, I was a freshman at Penn. The one common thread between all three of these experience is continuous learning.…
By: Kushal Modi, CAS ’21 Kushal in front of the Louvre in Paris US Embassy – Paris, France Kushal Modi, a rising junior and PPE major, is spending the summer as an intern with the US Embassy in Paris. As he settles into his internship, he shares his tips for visiting the iconic city and what…
By: Rachel Hong, CAS ’20 Rachel traveling in Colombia Designit – Medellín, Colombia Before coming to Colombia, everybody asked me what I was most excited for. Without fail, my answer was always the food. I come from a family that’s big on traveling, and wherever we go, my dad’s top priority is scoping out the…
By: Jiyeux Seok, SEAS ’20 Jiyeux on a day trip to Pulau Ubin Engineering Research in Singapore The sun hid behind a blanket of clouds as a rag-tag group of adventure-hungry Penn students stepped onto a bumboat amidst loud plops of rain against rough waters. “It always randomly rains like this,” I assured the others. “It’ll…
By: Heta Patel, CAS ’21 Heta in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala Guatemala Health Initiative – Santiago Atitlán Picture a rural town. What do you see? Now, take a deep breath. What does it smell like?…
By: Anna Bennett, Penn Nursing ’20 Anna (left) on a weekend trip to Galway Nursing Research in Dublin – Ireland Before this internship, I really hadn’t left the East Coast. My hometown and Philly were really the only things familiar to me. Prior to leaving, I really didn’t know how I was going to adjust…
By: Ethan Boyer, SEAS ’21 Ethan on a visit to Cologne, Germany Engineering Research in Aachen, Germany I just finished the second week of my ten-week research internship in Aachen Germany and so far the experience has been amazing. The research I am doing in 3-D printing microvascular networks at the RWTH Aachen university hospital is…
By: Jenny Ko, CAS ’21 Jenny at the Lynk office in Hong Kong Lynk – Hong Kong It has only been my first week at work, but I have already noticed so many striking aspects of working at a startup company in Hong Kong. I am currently interning at Lynk, an expert network consulting company,…
