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I hate goodbyes.

For the past two years now I haven’t spent more than 4 months at a time in the same location. I have been alternating between school in Pennsylvania, my co-op in West Virginia, study abroad in India, and now my internship in Alabama. Each time I move I have to say goodbye all over again…

OMG

OMG, what do they want from me? This is the question I ask everyday when I walk into the art gallery. In my last internship at the Stores Consulting Group, I would walk into work and have a complete lists of the tasks I was expected to complete that day. But here, I walk in to work,…

Navigating Communication at Pulsar Technologies

In any internship, there is bound to be some ambiguity, especially early on as you try to navigate your daily responsibilities and familiarize yourself with expectations. Coming into my internship in Madrid, I was anticipating these challenges being exacerbated by the international nature of the internship and the English-Spanish language barrier. While I initially struggled…

Art Gallery Internship

Update: Week 2 Life is good in Paris. It turns out the Parisians drink Rose like water. I am not much of a drinker; however, the wine does taste better here. I think I am now 50% pasta, and 50% bread and butter and i’ve never been more okay with that. I’ve been babysitting my…

Managing Time in Madrid

Time management is always something I have struggled with personally. I’ve occasionally found it difficult to be proactive with important tasks, to avoid allocating too much time to unimportant tasks, and generally to balance my efforts in a way that minimizes stress and maximizes productivity. Going into this trip to Madrid, I knew that time…

Pulsar Technologies

For the duration of my time in Spain I will be working for Pulsar Technologies. Though Pulsar’s client base extends into four countries on three continents, they were founded and remain headquartered here in Spain as a company dedicated to information technology (IT). Specifically, Pulsar focuses on the monitoring aspect of IT, with products…

To My Past Self,

To My Past Self, Deciding to apply for the Leadership in the Himalayas program was by far the best decision you could have made. The stress you felt while filling out the application was worth it. The time you spent preparing your body was worth it. The leap you took to go to India was…

Settling in…

Hi again! I’d like to preface this blog by venting. This experience is literally the craziest thing I have ever done, and I consider myself an rather adventurous individual. How do I feel? I think I am currently resting at the intersection of euphoria and panic. Assimilating is no joke. On prior trips to France,…

To The Snow Peaked Mountains,

To The Snow Peaked Mountains, I enjoyed the time I had watching the clouds themselves stepping over you. In all your glory, I couldn’t take my eyes off you. No picture can do you justice, but I will share one anyways. In the beginning of our trek I started off by summarizing the events of…