Working with Tuscan Trucks!

This semester, I am currently one of 7 Pitt Business students participating in the internship course here in Florence. The course consists of working 20 hours a week for our internship, as well as a weekly class with weekly assignments. My internship is at the Kaledios Marketing Agency, which is located here in the city…

Adjusting to Life in London

Hello again from London!  We are almost two-thirds done with the program now, and I have come to love London as a city. However, there have been various aspects of London that have proven difficult to adjust to. When I originally imagined my triumphant return back to the United States, I thought that I would…

Business as NOT Usual?

Ciao a tutti, Firenze has been beautiful as usual lately. After a brief hiatus touring Calabria and Palermo, I’m very glad to be back in Firenze. After being a tourist for a week, I relate more to the clients I serve in the tourism industry. Tuscany Cycle is a bicycle and Vespa tour agency that…

Welcome to Uni!

Hello again! I am so excited to writing to you all as I finish up the first half of my semester here in London. Fun fact about London is that they refer to college as “Uni”! While here I am not partaking in an internship, but I am taking 5 classes. These classes are requirements…

Business in Firenze

Ciao again! It has been another two weeks in Firenze, and I fall in love with this city more and more every day. In this post, I will talk about the business curriculum that I am taking while abroad. The Global Business Institute does offer an internship, but I opted to take classes and engage…

School in France

So far, school in France has been very different compared to in the United States. I noticed that the way classes operate is different from the 3 hours lectures with coffee breaks in between, to the coordinators vs professors teaching courses. The 3 hour lectures have been a bit of an adjustment for my attention…

School in Florence!

It has officially been over a month since I have been in Florence, Italy! With time I have developed an understanding of the city and ways to get around. Through the process of planning my semester abroad, I made the decision not to complete an internship during my time in Florence. I decided to focus…

Interning at Lumen

For the past month, I’ve been interning remotely at Lumen Research as a DataAnalyst, which has been a tremendously valuable experience. They are an ad-techcompany that specializes in creating software that analyzes the eye-trackingdata they collect. A majority of their work is done with companies that want tofigure out how much attention their ads garner….