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,…
By: Benjamin Bond, CAS ’20 Etonkids Educational Group – Beijing, China Twenty hours of plane rides and bad in-flight entertainment can really take a lot out of a person. Needless to say, when I arrived in Beijing after my wearisome flight, I was wiped out already. On top of it all, this was my first…
By: Nora Hennessy, Nursing ’21 Trinity College Dublin – Dublin, Ireland The first day of work I attended a conference on Spirituality in Healthcare in Ireland. It was so great. There were many excellent lecturers and guest speakers, including Janet Quinn, who is a major mindfulness speaker in the US. My favorite part was the…
By: Sophia Simon, CAS ’19 Sophia on San Cristobal Island Galapagos Education and Research Alliance – San Cristobal Island, Ecuador 1. Try all of the new foods that you can. If you see someone eating or ordering something that you don’t recognize, get it too! Not only will you be trying something different, but you might find…
By: Ryan Bender, CAS ’21 GRIP Intern – Buenos Aires, Argentina There’s a bit of household American wisdom that goes something like this: “Friends who want to stay friends don’t discuss religion or politics.” While it is polite to be mindful of others’ sensitivities, this wouldn’t get you very far in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentines…