This morning, I woke up at 5am with excitement and also a new crippling fear of oversleeping. I did most of my packing when I woke up and I also used the early morning time to take my luggage down early. Just imaging all of us trying to cram into the elevator with our bags…
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Day 15- Heading Home: Full and Grateful
The alarm came early. By 8 a.m. we were out the door and on our way to the airport, bags packed with souvenirs, dirty laundry, and two weeks’ worth of memories. Departure felt organized. Check-in and bag drop moved quickly, and security was smooth. The real test came at border control, where the EU’s new…
Day 14- Off to Salzburg
When we got to choose how to spend our free day, I knew almost immediately where I wanted to go. My favorite sight of the trip so far had been Neuschwanstein, and I wanted to be near the Alps again. Salzburg, Austria felt like the right answer. Sound of Music country, a castle on a hill, water…
Day 13: Touching Grass (and Cows) in Austria!
This was by far my favorite day of the entire trip! We used our free day to go to Salzburg, Austria. When it came to planning the trip I was very indifferent about we did and I was genuinely up to do anything as I was not particularly drawn to Austria for anything specific. Erin…
Day 12: That’s a Wrap!
Today is presentation day, we started the morning off by doing extra preparation and adding final touches to the presentation. Once we arrived to the University of Augsburg campus, we went to a study room to practice our presentation as a group. After practicing, everyone dispersed to get food and wait until presentations started. While…
Day 7 – Art, Automakers, and Augsburg
I can not believe we are pretty much halfway done! Today was a much more chill day with only one item on the agenda: meeting with a reporter for Bloomberg BusinessWeek. I was able to catch up on some much-needed rest before going with the rest of the crew to a museum in Augsburg called…
A Day of Remembrance: Visiting Dachau
Before leaving for Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site on Sunday morning, I knew it would be a very emotional and difficult experience. Throughout the trip, we had spent so much time learning about German industry, culture, and history, but this visit felt very different from everything else we had done so far. As soon as…
Moments in Munich
Saturday in Munich was one of the most exciting days of the trip so far. After spending most of the week in Augsburg visiting companies and historical sites, it was fun finally getting to experience a larger and much more fast-paced city. I had been looking forward to visiting Munich before we even left for…
A Day Around Augsburg
On day six of the trip, we had a more relaxed day in Augsburg before heading back to the University of Augsburg for a guest speaker later in the afternoon. After spending the earlier part of the week constantly traveling to company visits and historical sites, it was nice having more time to explore Augsburg…
Day 11: Walking on Sunshine
Today was an early wake-up call for everyone. The bus pulled out of the hotel at 6 in the morning. My plan was to sleep on the way there since we had to get up so early, and it was a long ride. That is exactly what I did. As soon as we started getting…
Day 7: Appreciating Augsburg
Today was our first day with some downtime and this was definitely needed. We had a slow start to the morning and went down for the hotel breakfast, which by the way I look forward to every morning! Around 11, most of us decided to explore more of Augsburg and go to the Schaezlerpalais, which…
Day 7 – Almost Halfway Done??
Today was definitely one of the more relaxed and easy days of the trip, which was a nice change of pace after several long travel days. After getting the chance to sleep in a little (sleeping in is 8 am for me on this trip) and enjoy a good breakfast, our group headed to Schaezlerpalais,…
Day 8: Remembrance
This trip was a different experience than any other. Growing up I have learned about the camps and learned about Germany’s history, and it has led me to have this preconceived notion. I was eager to see this place firsthand, and actually experience the history, not just read out of a textbook or off a…
Day 11: The Home Stretch
This week has really flown by as it is the final day before presentations and start of the program winding down. Audi was our final site visit and I was super eager to learn more about the production process after spending over a week researching the company for our presentation. We already had a guest…
Frolicking in Füssen
It was finally the day I had been looking forward to for the entire trip — our visit to Neuschwanstein Castle, the 19th-century castle built by King Ludwig II as a personal retreat and fantasy escape from the industrial world around him. Leading up to this day, everyone had talked about how beautiful the views…
Behind the Robots: Day at KUKA
On our fifth day of the trip, we visited KUKA, a company that specializes in industrial robotics and automation systems. After visiting BMW the day before and seeing KUKA robots actively building parts of BMW vehicles, I was really excited for this visit because we were finally getting to see where a lot of that…
Day 4: Visiting BMW
On Tuesday, we got on the road bright and early at 7:00 a.m. to head to BMW in Munich. After what felt like a long bus ride, we finally arrived at the BMW facility, which was one of the visits I had been most excited for throughout the trip. Since BMW was also the company…
Day 3: Exploring the University and City
On our first full day in Augsburg, we started the morning with breakfast at the hotel before heading over to the University of Augsburg to meet with our industry analysis groups. This was also our first time using the public transportation system in Augsburg. We took the tram to the university, and I was immediately…
Free Day: Friday
I decided to stay in Augsburg on the last day of the trip. Ironically, our final day ended up being the nicest weather we had the entire time, and I did not want to spend any more time on a bus or train. I woke up, had our awesome hotel breakfast, and then spent around…
Arriving in Augsburg
After arriving in Munich and taking the bus to Augsburg, my first impressions of Germany were very different from what I expected. One of the first things that stood out to me was how clean and organized everything felt, especially the roads, buildings, and public spaces. Compared to what I am used to at home…