By: Junfang Zhang, CAS ’25 Soybean stew, doenjang-jjigae (된장찌개) International Development in Seoul, South Korea One of the biggest benefits of having two whole months in Seoul is the ability to get around the city and explore its neighborhoods – on top of doing the typical list of tourist activities. That has certainly been the…
By: Justin Moore, CAS ’23 Justin and friend in Buenos Aires Social Impact in Buenos Aires, Argentina For the past 4 weeks, I have been interning at a company called Matriarca located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This was possible through Penn via GRIP as I was accepted and am currently a part of the ‘Social…
By: Charlotte Fletcher, CAS ’25 Charlotte and her colleagues in the office. Social Impact in Buenos Aires, Argentina ¿Quieres tomar algo con nosotros? With those five kind words of invitation, I felt welcomed into the fold of my new company. We were leaving the office early to celebrate the 23rd birthday of my supervisor, Cami. I…
By: Haerin So, Wharton ’25 Haerin at the S&P Global Sustainable1 Summit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Business in Sydney, Australia In my time in Sydney thus far, I have surprised myself with my newfound passion for research. Prior to this internship, I was unaware of the unexplored areas of business thinking and the…
By: Lina Oumera, MPH ’23 Lina with the Director General of UNESCO UNESCO, France Before I began my internship, I was nervous about what the work environment would be like, I did not know what to expect. However, I was positively surprised! Although at times I would get assigned boring tasks, the times when I…
By: Mackenzie Mckillip, CAS’ 24 Mackenzie with camera next to moth trap The Laurence Sterne Trust, United Kingdom Learning to Adult On paper, I’m an adult. I’m going to turn 20 in a few months. I can, and will, vote. But I never really felt like an ‘adult,’ or whatever that’s supposed to mean, until…
By: Mihir Shah, SEAS ’24 Research project: PRIMAL Engineering Research in Singapore Coming to work in Singapore, one of the most exciting parts was being part of a robotics group and learning more about machine learning. My current project, PRIMAL, is working on a decentralized path-finding algorithm for a system of multi-agent robots. This sounds…
By: Carolina Yuka Nakada, SEAS ’24 Yuka at Puente de la Mujer (Woman’s Bridge) Social Impact in Buenos Aires, Argentina As I considered what exactly I wanted to do during my Summer 2022, I filled myself with expectations about my GRIP experience. Above all, I was excited about everything that was upcoming: the new people…
By: Carmen Harrison Montoya, CAS ’24 Inside the church of a small school in the city San Miguel, within the larger province of Buenos Aires. Social Impact in Buenos Aires, Argentina Coming to Buenos Aires, I had the choice between a renowned political think tank and a nonprofit for education and poverty relief. Based on…
By: David Kato, CAS ’24 David at Geneva Lake World Medical Association (WMA), Ferney-Voltaire, France Coming to France was like leaving behind all sense of familiarity. My French was not that great. And here I am in a town and country I have never been before. Essentially, the only sense of familiarity I had was…