My time in Ireland is coming to a close and I’m both excited and sad. I’m eager to be home for a few days before school and see my friends. I have so many adventures to tell them about! On the other hand, I am sad those adventures are ending. My study abroad experience was…

As my last week at my internship approaches, I feel like it’s time to reflect on the culture of my organization and see what has changed since my first analysis. When I first started working, I had high expectations for my workplace atmosphere. I envisioned myself befriending coworkers and going to lunch with them and…

Having been in Dublin for several weeks, I’m still very much enjoying my time here. I love the city and the people, and I continue to experience new things everyday. I am, however, growing tired of being a tourist. At this point, I’m annoyed with living in a student residence with several young  kids from…

So far, Ireland hasn’t been too much different from America. Irish people are extremely friendly and typically respond fondly to American tourists. I was a little bit nervous about studying abroad, especially during a time when American politics seems to be at the forefront of world news, because I didn’t want people to misjudge me…

Gorta-Self Help Africa provides a few different services, such as fundraising events, informative literature circulation, and the implementation of the actual self-help programs themselves. Because they do so many things, both out of country and in country, they are enveloped in a tangled networking web. To start, as an intern for the communications team, I…

Because Gorta-Self Help Africa assists populations on another continent, they are affected by global factors as well as Western factors in Ireland, the UK, and the United States. These are places where SHA works through satellite fundraising offices. An issue they often face is how to solve what would be an easy problem in the…

Some of the other Pitt students and I traveled to London last weekend. Because we have to work on Friday and Monday, we were really only left with one full day to explore. We definitely made the most of what time we had there. We hit a lot of the tourist attractions like Big Ben,…

I am interning for a non-profit organization. Rather than creating products, we raise funds and implement programs. Analyzing the non-profit sector is somewhat unique because there aren’t really competitors. There are other players in the game, but we sort of collaborate with them. The main goal is to eradicate hunger and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa,…