They say that time flies when you’re having fun, and after watching two months in Spain go by like a 50-minute recitation I have never agreed more with this statement. The time I spent at Pulsar Technologies was full of experiences that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. As…
Category: Swanson School of Engineering
Adjusting to Passive Feedback
The feedback mechanisms provided at work were very interesting in that they were essentially non-existent. In fact, the only time direct, explicit feedback was really provided to me was during the mid-term and final performance reviews mandated through the program. As someone who lives and studies in a society that is very big on clear…
Week 9! I’m in London!
First things first, a quick update. Hello everyone, my time in Paris has ended. Yesterday morning I hopped on a train to London, England. Here I will be studying Strategic Marketing at the Imperial College London for the next 3 weeks. A few minutes ago, I went to the store to grab some lunch, and…
Week 8. Salut!
How does your host culture define “success” in a professional sense? What makes a successful/effective employee in your internship and industry? How do behaviors and actions of a “successful” employee differ in your host vs. home country? Just as an update, this is week 8! I literally can’t believe it has been 8 week since…
Differing Levels of Success: Spain vs. US
I would like to preface this blog post with the disclaimer that I, as a 21-year-old college student with two months of real work experience at a single company, am startlingly underqualified to speak unequivocally and comprehensively on the topic of what defines a “successful” worker in general, let alone across cultural lines. That said,…
Eating on the Job in Spain
Having no work experience prior to my internship in Spain puts me in a unique position in terms of evaluating workplace culture. Coming into the program, I knew I would be experiencing two distinct but related challenges: my first real job and my first job in Spain. In the workplace, some of the adjustments I’ve…
Update: This week, the french intern left and the british intern arrived. Reading my last blog post it seemed like I was so scared to meet this girl, but we get along really well and shes teaching me more french than I think I was learning speaking only french (because they had a hard time…
mais non!
“Mais nonnn”! I really wish my time in Paris wasn’t coming to an end, it’s really freaking me out. I’ve had such a wonderful time here. Honestly I refuse to admit it. It’s still the beginning of July and the month is young. I have plenty of time. The only problem is time isn’t slowing…
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