This week was a big week at Krein. Ian and I finished the project that we have been working on for weeks now. If you remember from last week, we were finishing up the research phase of our project and reaching out to potential clients and stakeholders. Well, this week we finished that list! With over 100 companies on the list, we emailed and surveyed each and every one of them. We are still waiting to hear back from some companies, but this closes the research part of our project. The next phase will be to continue interviewing, and solidify a few new clients. I’m not exactly sure what we will be doing next week, but I’m excited to find out. 

This week in Professor Gupta’s class, we once again had passionate debates. My favorite conversation was about AI and its impact on our generation. As students, we love the idea of having a machine to help us with homework and papers, but we have to ask ourselves how that affects our learning and understanding of material. I’m of the personal opinion that AI and tools such as ChatGPT are detrimental to our learning, but we should still learn how to use them. AI has already seeped into so many industries and soon enough we’re probably going to be told to use it. I loved hearing everyone’s opinion on the matter and I can’t wait to discuss the movie Erin Brockovich next week in class! 

Last weekend we visited my favorite city, Florence. Florence is just as vibrant and bustling as Milan, but it feels more like a classic Italian city to me. We spent the weekend visiting the Uffizi gallery, the Boboli Gardens, and climbing up the bell tower of the Florence Duomo. That was hard! My favorite part however, was watching the sunset in the Piazzale Michelangelo. The Piazzale overlooked the whole city, the sun set right over the water and behind Ponte Vecchio. There were thousands of people watching this sunset and everyone cheered when the sun went below the horizon. Florence has definitely been my favorite place so far and it is a must see for everyone traveling to Italy. 

 

View from Piazzale Michelangelo.

All the people watching the sunset!

View of Florence from the top of the tower.

Jimmy, Bryan, and I met up with a friend from Lehigh.