I cannot believe that the internship has finished. I sit here in the EDI campus just a few hours away from my flight home and I am still trying to take it all in. I have had an amazing time, and I have met so many wonderful people here, from students and teachers to managers […]
I studied in Madrid, Spain for six weeks in the summer of 2014. I took two classes: a Spanish art history class and contemporary Spanish culture class. The art class was one of my favorite classes I have ever taken so far in my college career. We learned about Spanish art throughout history and visited […]
Hello, this is Mengyuan (Maggie) Zhang, a senior marketing concentrator at SMG. I studied abroad in Seoul, Korea in spring 2014, which was the second semester of my junior year. Seoul National University (SNU) Courses Each course in SNU counts as 3credits at BU. I took four courses (12 credits in total) at SNU, including […]
Interned at a company called Thriev, a start-up company that specializes in private chauffeur service. Internship: Thriev is Kind of like Uber, but they use all electric vehicles and their target market is mostly corporate customers. I was a graphic design and social marketing intern for them. Projects included creating new websites, finding optimal solutions for the […]
Interned at Whisky Mist Nightclub Internship: I worked at Whisky Mist Nightclub in the district of Mayfair in London. I was the PR and Marketing Intern at Whisky Mist. During my time at my internship, I planned events, managed the club’s social media accounts, and emailed prospective clients, from musicians to fashion designers, to visit Whisky Mist […]
Interned at Sit La Precisa. I studied in Padua, Italy during the Spring of 2014. I interned at the headquarters of an Italian manufacturing company called Sit Group (or “Sit La Precisa”) that makes gas valves and related components. At the start of my internship, the company had just acquired a new information system, SAP. As a […]
Week three of our internship passed in a blur of work, curries, and another interesting field trip. On Wednesday afternoon we began our 700km round trip to Ratnagiri, a successful district in Maharashtra. After a six hour drive we arrived at what we would describe as the Indian equivalent of Centre Parcs, a quiet set […]
Interned at Bentley Systems International. I studied in Dublin, Ireland during the Spring 2014 semester with the Dublin Management Internship Program. I attended University College Dublin and took classes in the Lochlann Quinn School of Business. I worked on the Campaign Management/User Engagement team at Bentley Systems International. Bentley makes software for infrastructure (civil engineering projects, […]
Rather than the usual Monday morning, this week we were treated to a trip to the Calico Museum of Textiles, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Ahmedabad, and considered essential to our work (I was informed that my supervisors would not allow me to leave the city without paying the museum a visit). […]
On his return from a tiresome field trip spent conducting research, Jordan updates us on his first week back in the EDI centre… Clip clop came the sound of Alex’s and my footsteps as we reached our adopted home – Ahmedabad. The previous sixteen hours had been a typical Indian train journey consisting of around twelve hours’ sleep […]
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