Hello everyone! My name is Caroline Collier. I am an incoming junior, majoring in marketing and supply chain management. In the future I hope to have a career in marketing where I can be creative and help clients ideas come to life. At Pitt I am a member of American Marketing Association, where I am on the Key Creation committee. In key creations I get to strengthen my consulting and website design skills. I also have a student job working for the Pitt Business Alumni Relations office, where I get to learn more about what goes in to funding and relationships of the business school. Outside of business related things, I am also a part of the Pitt Ballet Club and Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

For a little bit more about me, I am from Columbus, Ohio and live with my parents and my older brother. I really like to dance, travel, take spin classes, watch movies, and go out with friends. Some of my favorite movies include: Age of Adeline, Crazy Rich Asians, The Holiday, and so many more. I really love to travel with my family in the summer. Some of my favorite places to vacation are Jaco, Costa Rica and Hessel, Michigan. Last summer, I went to the Netherlands with Plus 3, so I am excited to be back in Europe this summer.

I am apart of the GBI Florence program where I am just participating in classes not the internship. I am taking an international marketing course and The Exploring the Global city course while I am here. So far, I really enjoy the class structure and professors in the program. I chose this program really because of how many great reviews it got from my peers with how much they learned about themselves and the new country they immersed themselves into. I haven’t spend much time abroad in my life, so I am trying to take as many opportunities as I can while I am young. I am also really looking forward to meeting students from other colleges in the US. Being abroad in a program that has students from all over will allow me to make new friendships that I wouldn’t have been able to make and see what it is like at other schools. I really hope to grow as a person here and learn more about what’s its like living abroad. I am excited to see how attending classes and learning content related to my major in a different country helps my understanding.

In order to be successful in the program abroad, I plan to leverage my Clifton strength of responsibility. I think in life it is very important to make responsible choices in order to stay safe and enjoy experiences. Being abroad and in an unfamiliar city can often put you in situations where you may not know what to do or how to get out of them. That’s why making responsible choices will make me one step closer to thriving in Italy this summer!