Professor Gupta’s CSR Course

This week in Professor Gupta’s corporate social responsibility course we are in the final week and are wrapping up! This week we are presenting our group projects and although we didn’t get through very many yesterday I thought it was really interesting. I am supposed to present tomorrow and although I am nervous I am looking forward to presenting my findings to my peers. Myself and my group members have worked very hard on this and I am proud of the presentation we have made. I also completed my last Wall Street Journal article assignment and was prompted to reflect on what we thought of the assignment and I realized how much I have enjoyed becoming a frequent reader of the news. 

 

Professor Swain’s Internship Seminar

In Professor Swain’s Internship Seminar course we also continued with some wrap up. Myself and my group members presented on the implications of the made in Italy label and I focused on nationalism versus regionalism in food. I got to do a lot of research and was able to apply concepts we have learned in class to better present my findings to my peers. We also had a brief discussion with Professor Gupta about interviewing skills and I got to practice interview questions with Allie. Although I thought this exercise might be kind of silly at first I really actually enjoyed practicing some interview skills with the experience at my internship. I also finished up my final paper today and reflected on my experience at my internship and my overall experience in Milan which made me realize how much I have learned since getting here. 

 

Internship Experience

This week at Turbo Crowd I don’t really have much to report. I presented my survey and made some changes and will be sending it out later in the week. Our regular meeting was canceled at the last minute and rescheduled to Thursday this past week and we didn’t really get to do much because our boss has been clearly busy with other matters. I am excited to be done with this process of survey design and to see the results. Because this is the last week I assume we will be doing something in our meeting tomorrow to wrap it all up. 

 

Travels in and around Milan

This past weekend was our last full weekend here, and my friends and I decided to stay in Milan for the weekend and explore all of the places that we haven’t gotten to see yet because we have been doing so much traveling on the weekends. It was so much fun and so relaxing. We went to vintage markets at the canals that we had never gotten to because we had never spent a Saturday in Milan and I absolutely loved them even though I didn’t buy anything. Later that day we went to a food street market and walked around and then made an hour walking journey to a restaurant we all wanted to try. On that walk we ended up going through Parco Semprione which was a part of Milan that I have always wanted to see and it did not disappoint. It was so calm and had so much greenery and for a moment I almost forgot I was in a city. I’m really sad that this was our last full weekend here and spending time in Milan made me realize how much I am going to miss it, I really do love it here.