Final Post: Sydney

With my trip in Sydney coming to an end, I would like to do a summary of my thoughts on the trip and the city, final thoughts about my internship and class, and my final trip to Royal National Park. This trip was an experience that I will never forget, and I also made some…

Sydney Update

During my last couple weeks in June here in Sydney, I have went on many different trips and activities with our program. These trips include: a day trip to the Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, a weekend trip to Cairns, a tour of the Sydney Opera House, Roar and Snore, and surfing lessons at Bondi…

Sydney Update: Internship

As promised, my next post would be about my internship and how it is going. I am a marketing intern at the Sydney Blue Sox, Sydney’s premiere baseball team. I work alongside two other people that are also on the same program I am on, with one of them being one of my suitemates. We…

Sydney Update

My stay in Australia so far has been everything that I was hoping it would be. My roommates are great and we all get along very well together, we are the only co-ed apartment on the program but it provides a very unique dynamic which we all enjoy. We all hang out in our common…

Sydney Blog: Pre-Departure

Hello, my name is Quinn Reiland and I am a rising senior at The University of Pittsburgh. I am a marketing major with the hopes of having a career in sports marketing. I am from a small town in Central Pennsylvania called Selinsgrove (about a hour north of Harrisburg). In high school, I was a…

Meet the GBI Student Bloggers for Summer 2017!

Welcome to the Global Business Institute Study Abroad Program! GBI Blog Overview The Global Business Institute (GBI) is a comprehensive study abroad program that combines coursework and part-time internship experience at one of Pitt Businesses’ international campuses. Each GBI scholarship recipient participates in a program long blogging initiative to share their experiences with their friends,…