Hola todos! Six weeks in, and this program continues to find new ways to push me in directions I did not see coming. This week’s prompt asks me to reflect on leadership, which is a word I have always felt a little complicated about. Not because I shy away from it, but because I think…

Hola todos! Four weeks in, and I think it is finally time to have an honest conversation about culture shock. Not the dramatic kind you see in movies, where someone lands in a foreign country and immediately melts down over not being able to find a cheeseburger. The quieter kind, where little things accumulate over…

Hola todos! Three weeks in, and if there is one thing this internship has taught me above everything else, it is that the professional world operates on a very different kind of confidence than the one you build in school. In a classroom, the problems are designed to be solved. The professor knows the answer,…

Hola todos! After wrapping up my first full week at Bond EMEA, I can honestly say that the professional world has a way of both humbling you and exciting you at the same time, sometimes in the same meeting. With this being my first true professional office experience, I walked in on Monday morning not…

Hola todos! I just wrapped up my first day of work in Madrid, and this city has been nothing but exhilarating so far. After a red-eye flight where I slept for about 8 of the 9 hours, I made it to Madrid early last Monday, where I met my host mom, Valentina, in her cozy…

Hello everyone! My name is Kayhaan Farahbakhshian, and I am a rising junior at Pitt’s College of Business Administration, studying Global Management and Marketing! I am from Sudbury, Massachusetts, but since arriving in Pittsburgh in the fall of 2024, I fell in love with the city and the time that I’ve spent learning here! This…