By: Joseph Squillaro, Penn Abroad Leader, CAS ‘21 Jenna DiStefano, a member of the Class of 2021, participated in a PGS to Sienna and Rome, Italy in May 2019, where she learned about Italian Sign Language and disability rights. I sat down with her to learn more about her time abroad, her inspiring learning experiences, and…
By: Shreya Naraparaju, Penn Abroad Leader, CAS ‘22 Simran traveling in summer 2018 Simran Chand, a rising senior studying Biology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies on a pre-medical track, has been abroad twice during her time at Penn: first, to Spain through a Penn Global Seminar (PGS), and immediately after, to Sydney, Australia as part…
By: Bilaal Azeer, CAS ’22 PGS – The City of Delhi: New, Old, and Unmapped Travel to India I am writing this sitting in the shade of the terrace gazebo at my house, back in my home country. It’s another warm summer day here, but time seems to have stopped. People are not swarming the streets,…
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: 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: Ailbhe Yasmin Wallis, CAS ’21 PGS –Â 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: Pearl Subramanian, CAS ’19 Pearl (center left) during her travels in China PGS – Environmental Health Issues and Global Implications Travel to China When I used to think about culture shock, I had always perceived it to be one-sided, something that usually Americans experienced as they jetted off to new places. Someone would land…
By: Pearl Subramanian, CAS ’19 Pearl (right) in China during the PGS travel component Environmental Health Issues and Global Implications Travel to China With a little more than 100 days left until graduation, now is around the time when reflecting upon my past four years at the University of Pennsylvania seems like the apt thing…
