By: Briana Carvalho, CAS ’21 Volta Branding Studio – Porto, Portugal When applying to GRIP, my intention was to gain a unique cultural perspective and improve my Portuguese. My program, titled Wine Production in Porto, did not come with a job description. Despite this, my motivation to spend the summer in Portugal was sufficient to…
By: Merry Gu, CAS ’21 Jossour Forum des Femmes Marocaines – Rabat, Morocco Morocco is perhaps best known for being a melange of diverse cultures, where Berber, Arabian, European, West African, and Sephardi Jewish influences are present in each city’s traditional cuisine, architecture, and attire. Language is no exception; my daily walk to work is…
By: Sardar Asfandyar Cheema, Wharton ’21 Ashoka – Mexico City, Mexico I always find it interesting to see what motivates a person or a group of people to come together and work towards a common goal. At Impact Hub Mexico, the co-working space where Ashoka is located, there are at least 10 non-profits working on…
By: Beverly Deng, Wharton ’21 Beverly (left) on a visit to Tiananmen Square Diversified Agency Services (DAS) – Shanghai, China I was born in Glendale, California in 1999 to a Chinese father and Taiwanese mother. Considering the overwhelming majority of my school district was Asian-American like me, my childhood seemed relatively normal. I grew up spending my…
By: Xavier Lee, SEAS ’22 Xavier (third from right) with members of the Cadence team enjoying lunch in a yurt Cadence Translate – Beijing, China On my first day of work, I’m taking the elevator up to the seventh floor of the office building where my company, Cadence Translate, resides. The doors open up to…
By: Shreya Naraparaju, CAS ’22 GRIP Interns hiking in the Blue Mountains, left to right: Sophie Shen, Mercedes Owens, Ryan Bush, and Shreya Naraparaju University of Sydney, Australia Interning abroad in Sydney, Australia has allowed me to gain a plethora of new experiences, both inside and outside the workplace. I tried a meat pie for…
By: Abigail Poteshman, CAS ’20 International Centre for Theoretical Physics – Trieste, Italy While normally a chocolate purist, the nero arancio gelato at Gelato Marco in Trieste, Italy has converted me. It is unquestionably the greatest gelato I have ever tasted. Nero is the Italian word for black but is often a synecdoche for different…
By: Corey Parker, Wharton ’21 Corey on a visit to Cueva del Esplendor while traveling in Colombia Nextentia – Medellín, Colombia My current internship in Medellín is at a start-up called Nexentia that works to provide calcium encapsulation products to a range of clients both human and animal. Nexentia is a small subdivision of the greater…
By: Connor Hardy, CAS ’21 Connor (second on right) eating lunch with colleagues from the Kolkata Anandam for Equality and Justice Kolkata Anandam for Equality and Justice – India About a year and a half ago, my grandfather turned to me and said, “Connor, I could call you a lot of things, but easygoing is not…
By: Stephanie Xie, Wharton ’21 Stephanie Xie (left) with fellow Penn student and summer intern, Vashvi Shah, at the Alibaba Cloud Summit KK Fund – Singapore In my first few weeks of work, I have attended four conferences, three demo days, and countless hawker centers…in short, my internship experience so far has been filled with opportunities to talk…