As we reflect on five weeks spent in India, a number of emotions are evoked. Many of these emotions we have touched upon in the previous installments, and I fear it would not do to dwell on these. It is, however, coming towards the time when some among us look to the west, and the impending […]
Hello! My name is Jillian Lau and I studied abroad in Shanghai, China spring 2015, the second semester of my junior year. Internship: I did the Shanghai Internship Program while abroad and interned at a local social media marketing agency called Mailman Group. The agency is owned by an Australian man, and the office is […]
Interned in marketing at Marketing Network, Spring 2015. Internship: I interned at the Marketing Network, an advertising, digital marketing, and PR agency. I loved my internship, especially the people I worked with. I was able to help with a variety of projects across the agency’s different businesses. I did research for current clients and new client […]
Interned in law at a small human rights firm, Spring 2015 Internship: My internship was with a very small human rights law firm with just around six full-time employees in total. While I didn’t have one on-going project with the firm, I worked on different things such as researching different bodies of law as they applied to our […]
Week four began with an early morning train ride to the rural town of Bardoli with our new sister and EDI employee, Mahima Behen. We would be conducting field research of a proposed blacksmithy cluster with stakeholder interviews and field visits. Our train arrived in Surat around 10AM where we stopped for some chai before […]
Thirty-four. That is the number of malaria tablets Chris has left, and also how he has been counting down the number of days we have left in Pune. Since we are only here for 15 more days, Chris has devised a complex formula for calculating how many days remaining, where he takes how many malaria tablets […]
My team (Justin, Bo and I) are producing real life stories about social entrepreneurs, which will hopefully become part of the first year curriculum at EDI to help inspire the students here. It’s now the back end of week 3, and we’re halfway through the internship. After two weeks of reading, learning and discussing with […]
As we near the halfway point in our internship, we have started to become accustomed to the daily routine at the RBI. Friday evening rolled around, the working week was over, and it was time to celebrate the two birthdays in the group. The Wari pilgrimage was making its way through Pune, reducing the city […]
Less than a week in, we were already pretty bored of dhal and rice for dinner every day, so on Friday evening we decided to take a trip out to a nicer restaurant. After successfully crossing a six-lane highway “Frogger”-style, all nine of us piled into what can only be loosely defined as a nine-seater taxi. We […]
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