This week, we had our corporate social responsibility course with Professor Gupta on Monday and Wednesday. On Monday, we began by discussing Sam Rosen and Bella’s Wall Street Journal articles. Sam’s was about the role that Goldman Sachs’s played in Silicon Valley Bank’s final days. Bella’s was about Virginia Tech’s bias response team and how it relates to the first amendment. After this discussion, we broke up into groups and filled out the in-class group worksheet on “The Civil Action”, which we watched last week. We then came back together and discussed the movie and these questions. We first discussed Lilli’s and my Wall Street Journal articles in class on Wednesday. Lilli’s article was about how Netflix subscriptions jumped as their U.S. password-sharing crackdown began. Mine looked at the “awkward” partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI. After this, we watched a video about the harmful aluminum mining in the Amazon rainforest. We then split up into groups and discussed questions about the Apple case study, then came back and 2 groups debated whether or not Apple should have the same working standards globally or if they should be different.

This week for my internship, my boss was out of the office on a business trip so Sachi and I worked remotely. Although we were remote, we still got a good amount of work done and new content made. Since we filmed lots of videos last week, this week we edited and added voiceovers and/or music to the videos from last week. We had to send them over to our sponsor for approval to post the completed videos and he will get back to us on them. So, we hope that next week we get final approval from our sponsor and the main South Garage owner and can begin posting the videos that we created. I think this whole process of making videos is taking a bit longer than it should, but our sponsor wants to see each of our videos before posting them, and tell us if anything needs to be changed, which does make sense. However, I think we had another productive week and I feel like my time is flying by!

This week I was again able to travel mostly on the weekends, but I had a great time when I did travel. On Sunday, it was our last day in Naples so we walked around the city and saw the ocean, went shopping, and got food. During the week I did not do much traveling except for going to Chinatown, Milan on Monday after Professor Gupta’s class. We went to a hot pot restaurant and the food was great! After dinner, we got bubble tea which was also tasty. It was a different experience for me in Chinatown, especially at the restaurant because most Chinese restaurants I have been to have many different ethnicities of people there, but in this restaurant I was one of the only people there who was not of Asian ethnicity. I did however enjoy this cultural immersion and had a great dinner there. Finally, on Friday I did some shopping in Milan and bought some clothing. Overall, I had another exciting week of travel and I am glad I have been able to travel so much!