It’s been a full two week since we got back to the US. There’s still a lot on my mind from the trip. The two weeks we spent in china comprised the fullest professional and cultural experience I have had on an academic trip. I got to check old items, like seeing the Great Wall, … Continue reading Trip Debrief →

Today is the last session for our China trip seminar. In two weeks, we will be in China, visiting historical monuments, corporate sponsors, and exploring cities. We had our final volunteer group presentations today and after those were over, a panel of students from Class 23 came in for a debrief on their trip last … Continue reading Pre-trip Blog 6 →

Today, we had a safety training specialist from the study abroad office come into class to tell us about safety while travelling abroad. He went over some of the training material that we had previously been exposed to in the online travel abroad application and talked about specific scenarios that had happened in the past, … Continue reading Pre-trip Blog 5 →

Today, we began watching the presentations from each of the volunteer groups. With the China trip being four weeks away, we really are in the endgame now. Our group, which researched food in China, presented on the different foods and snacks to expect in China, giving general recommendations, teaching simple food-related phrases, and listed several … Continue reading Pre-trip Blog 4 →

In class, we met Ulyssia Dennis. Dennis is a staff member in the Engineering Career Services Center who will be one of the chaperones for our business simulation trip to China. I am looking forward to learning from her during the trip and seeing how her experiences with career counseling can provide additional perspective on … Continue reading Pre-trip Blog 3 →

Today, we talked about personal brands and were asked to reflect on what our personal brand was in addition to how that fit into our trip to China. Last summer, I worked for a large oil and energy company in their supply chain department. It was a very traditional corporate environment and had a company … Continue reading Pre-trip Blog 2 →

This first week is exciting since it marks the beginning of our preparation for our trip to China. I have been to China before, but of the 4 major cities we are visiting, I have only been to Shanghai. There’s a sense of familiarity for a country I have been to several times before mixed … Continue reading Pre-trip Blog 1 →