Contact Ask Me About… Through the nursing program at the University of Queensland (UQ), I was able to focus most of my time abroad on the hands-on and in-person experiences through my clinical rotation at the Surgical, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) on the general rehabilitation floor for geriatric patient populations. While navigating the Australian…
Contact Ask me about… My Experience Abroad: I chose Australia because I wanted to be independent. For context, I am a native Philadelphian, although I have a decent amount of travel experience in my background. I did a Summer program in London after my freshman year, and then another one in France the Summer after…
Contact Ask me about… My Experience Abroad: As a French & Francophone Studies minor, I have always dreamed of becoming as close to fluent as possible in French as well as laying eyes on all of the historical monuments and works of art I’ve learned so much about. As a Cognitive Science major, I am particularly fascinated by language…
Contact Ask me about… My experience was somewhat unique in the fact that I was approximately 10,000 miles from home or Penn. While the physical barrier made “feeling connected” very difficult, so did the dramatic difference in time zones. This pushed me at all times during the program to engage with the Penn students at…
Contact Ask Me About… My Experience Abroad By completing projects ranging from web development to language optimization in a variety of professional fields, my role as a Marketing and Business Development Intern in Buenos Aires exposed me to new concepts, areas of work, and perspectives I genuinely believe I would have lacked without it. The…
Contact Ask Me About… My Experience Abroad Taking a PGS and traveling to Mumbai, India was a great international experience. It allowed me to truly embrace the culture of another country. I was able to talk with local people, eat local foods, and also explore cool places within the country. This experience related to my…
Contact Ask me about… My Experiences Abroad: At the University of Queensland, I had the opportunity to take courses on nursing practice in the Australian healthcare system and conduct clinical rotations as a student nurse. Having only done formal healthcare education in the U.S., even the tiniest of differences surprised me. Whilst these differences initially…