In class on Monday, we watched a video on mining facilities in Brazil that are dumping and intoxicating the Amazon River and the communities living around it. It is intoxicating their water giving them no drinking water as well as contributing to their chronic health issues. We discussed the questions of whether is it ethical and what would I do if I were running these major corporations. If I were in the shoes of these large CEOs and managers, I would try and handle the situation by accepting when we are doing something wrong and taking the necessary steps to become a more ethical corporation. I would try to be as fair to all my employees as possible, but I would also try and make sure that the work my company is doing has very little to no harm on anyone’s standard of living or ruining any nature. I think it would be hard, but these companies are very successful and have the resources to put time and money into these efforts and I think if they did, it would only make them more successful in the long run. For class on Wednesday we had to watch the movie Erin Brockovich which I thought was a very good movie and showed something that we don’t often see. Erin was more concerned about getting these people the justice they deserve exposing PG&E and forcing them to fix their actions. She was willing to give up time with her family being a single mother must have been extremely hard, but if she didn’t help these families that were sick from the contaminated water then who would have?

The internship networking event last Thursday was fun and a great chance for me to meet my classmates and other people’s bosses which was nice to finally put some faces to names about the bosses some of my friends talk about. It was a nice event and I am glad that we had it as a way to connect with our peers and the people that work here! In class, we did a workshop where we redid our resumes and added our summer internship to our resumes. I am glad we got to talk with Gupta about our resumes and he could provide us with some of his expertise because he has read and revised so many resumes throughout his career. I added my internship to my resume and also was able to update my LinkedIn profile to match my resume which I think made them both look better. I am glad we got to spend time working on those. 

We completed organizing our large spreadsheet database of over 50,000 contacts, from both Italian and USA companies. We went through each email and associated a first and last name if possible and helped rearrange and organize these two spreadsheets. We also have started organizing these and putting the correct people on the correct slides, for example, if there is an Italian company that is on the English company tab, we will correct it and move them to their proper tabs. This week, our boss was on vacation so we were able to work from home and it just shows the flexibility and how much we do relies on what our boss is doing. I enjoy working from home, but I honestly like the structure of going into the office every now and then. 

Stayed in Milan this weekend and explored a little bit on my own. I did a little bit of a reset weekend by going to the grocery store and cleaning my dorm as well as exploring the areas around Duomo. Last week my phone broke and I had to spend 4 hours in the Apple store to get my entire display replaced. They tried to tell me that they might not be able to fix it and made me nervous about losing all my data or having to survive the next two weeks without my iPhone would be very hard for me to travel and get home without access to my boarding pass. But after waiting for 4 hours sitting on my computer there, they were able to fix my phone and replace my display without losing any of my data and causing me any other issues. It was an upsetting experience though because I did not drop or crack my phone, I just woke up and the entire screen was all white and would not reset. I never thought I would have to go to and get my phone fixed as well as spend that kind of money getting my phone fixed in a foreign country. Overall though I am glad I was able to manage to get my phone fixed and get to the Apple store by myself without any GPS. 

 

A picture of Duomo!

An acai bowl place I found!

A picture of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

A dinner I made for myself! Chicken, sweet potato, and pesto pasta!