Today we sadly flew home. We left around 5:45 am which is relatively early. We all were able to fly from Munich to Charlotte together, but from there we went our separate ways. I personally flew back to Philadelphia with a few other students as it is closer to my home than Pittsburgh is. I…
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Harry Styles
Today is our twelfth day in Germany which means it is our free day. Today some friends and I traveled to Munich to see Harry Styles in concert. Since we didn’t have any program today we got to sleep in again which was really nice after having to be up early for most of this…
Presentation Day
Sadly today was the last official day on program. Today all of our hard work visiting and interviewing companies such as Grob, Forvia, Hoerbiger, and Audi come to completion. We will give our final presentations with our group on the company to which we were assigned. I was given Audi. What I enjoyed most about…
Castle on a Hill
Today we got up bright and early to travel to see the castle in Neuschwanstein. We had a decently long bus ride to the castle so I got to sleep a bit more on the ride there. Once we got there it started to rain but that wasn’t going to stop us. We stopped first…
Regensburg and Walhalla
Today we had the opportunity to visit two places Regensburg which is Germany’s fourth largest city and Walhalla a Greek like monument. I think Regensburg was definitely the most interesting city we have visited thus far because the city was not destroyed during the war unlike many other cities, therefore the old architecture is still…
Dachau
Today was definitely the hardest day of all so far. We visited Dachau, a Nazi concentration camp. Though this is not the biggest nor most famous of all concentrations it is very important. Dachau was used as a model concentration camp to show to outsiders that what the Nazis were doing was not as bad…
Munich Tour
Today was the best morning we got to wake up a lot later than normal and had to meet around 9:40 which allowed for some much needed rest. To get to Munich we took the train which was a really cool experience. Most of the group was spread out as the train was very busy…
Audi our first OEM
We had another early morning where we meet at 7:15 to head to our first OEM Audi. I was very excited to visit this company as I love their company and cars. We were fortunate enough to be able to go to the actual headquarters of the company (Ingolstadt, Germany) even though are multiple Audi…
Forvia or Faurecia
Today we woke up to a very rainy morning and got to have a special breakfast. We traveled about 30 minutes to a small village to have a special white sausage breakfast. The breakfast took place in a little building that you were able to get sausage and mustard, cheese platter, or pretzels. This was…
Day at Grob
This morning was a late start which was a nice way to start the day. We took a bus ride to Grob which is a company that makes machines to sell to other companies to create their products. I initially thought I wouldn’t find this company interesting but I have to say this was my…
Hoerbiger and the Alps
Today was the earliest wake up call in order to drive about an hour to our first company visit, Hoerbiger. Hoerbiger produces valves that have different applications ranging from medical to automotive. When we first arrived, the plant was a lot smaller than I expected however, though small in size currently Hoerbiger is growing since…
An Augsburg Student for the Day
7 am came a lot sooner than expected. After what felt like 5 minutes of sleep, my alarm was going off telling me it was time to start day two of our time in Germany. We first had breakfast in the hotel which was irregular from American breakfast, but I would say is much better….
2 Flights Later
We finally arrived in Munich around 7 am after a flight from Charlotte at 9am and an overnight flight to Munich. The first thing that I noticed after touching down in the foreign country was truly the taxis. In America, taxis are normally bright yellow and not from a high end car company. In Germany…
Here I Come Germany
Hello everyone! My name is Colleen O’Malley and I am a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh. I am currently a bioengineering major at the Swanson School of engineering on the premed track with the intent to also graduate with a chemistry minor and a certificate in Health Humanities. Since I intend to go to…