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…

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…

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,…

There are many different kinds of leaders and many different styles of leadership, but in my opinion, there are two general archetypes of a “leader”. The first is an active leader: someone who is vocal, passionate and highly visible. This type of leader let’s everyone know they’re in charge and leads directly through commands, direct…

Preparing yourself for a study abroad trip is kind of like planning a skydiving trip. No matter how many hours you spend researching, practicing and mentally preparing it’s impossible to know what’s coming until you jump. Pitt certainly helped prepare me for certain aspects of the metaphorical jump that is living and working in Madrid,…

As with anything difficult enough to be worth doing, there has been a learning curve to my time in Madrid. Some of the required adjustments were relatively easy to make, while others took more time and others still have been more of a constant process than a finite change. Personally, I have had the most…

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…

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…

               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…