The Need to Know How to Learn

The prompt this week is all about how Pitt has prepared me for this international experience, considering that I’m doing a web design internship, it’s kind of a difficult question. Computer science is fundamentally about foundations. For this internship, I’m working primarily in JavaScript with some additional HTML and CSS. Now it might interest the…

A Quick Lesson on Program Design

Whenever you’re programming there are always numerous nuances that can impact how you write the code both on the side of style and on the back end (on the conceptual side of how something works). At the moment, I’m working on the subtitles feature for the Delight XR video player and I’m going to use…

A Window into Computer Science: Third Time’s a Charm I Hope

        This is starting to become a major issue seeing as this is the third time that I have to write this. The last two times (the first being Sunday afternoon, the second Monday night) I’d write the entire blogpost, add my tags, and then try to add the picture that I…

An American in Berlin: Preface

My name is Ben Campbell and am currently double majoring in computer science and multi-media and digital culture with a potential minor in psychology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Despite only being in my second year with the University, I’ve decided to study abroad with the International Internship Program centered in Berlin. I…

Kyla Stewart GBI in London (currently in Barcelona)

Hi everyone! My name is Kyla Stewart, I am rising senior studying Marketing and Chinese. I’m so excited to be a part of Pitt GBI in London this summer. I will be taking a class in International Marketing and doing a marketing internship at a non-profit organization called Believe You Can Make a Difference. I…

12 Days Until London!

Hello, my name is Alissa Seislove and welcome to my blog! I am a rising senior at the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in marketing and pursuing a certificate in international business. This summer, I will be participating in the GBI London program where I will be taking an urban studies course and interning at a…