I’m still in awe of the time I’ve had abroad in Germany! It’s been incredible to say the least and it is something I will be able to talk about and recount for years to come. I wouldn’t think I would say this about a close to $5,000 trip, but it is truly a ‘bang for…

Once in a lifetime. Those 4 words describe my experience on this trip. Whenever someone asks me how my trip was, loads of memories flood my mind and I answer “it was amazing! I miss it so much, it was seriously a once in a lifetime experience.” People would sometimes reply asking if I’d go…

Today was the day, the day where the planner said: All day – Free time. All 20 of us were given the chance to go off on our own for the whole day! Most of us had decided to go to Austria, while some went to Nuremberg, some went to visit family, and some decided…

Today was our last day as a group with all of the Pitt students (besides when we’d go to the airport) and the last with the German students, so it was definitely a bittersweet day all together. We started our morning with a classic Bavarian breakfast, where we left the hotel at 8:15, so it…

So here we are: Presentation Day. I said in Day 6’s blog that Ulm was one of the days I was least looking forward to (because of the 768 steps) however, as I also mentioned I was wrong. Today was probably one of my least favorite days as it was time for our final presentation….

Today we expected it to start off like many of our days: wake up, eat breakfast, meet up, take some sort of transit, go to a typical site visit (with varying companies obviously). So we did just that, up until the ‘typical’ site visit. We get to H&K and we’re waiting just outside of the…

Politics talk Lunch Robots Dinner These are the series of unfortunate events. I’ll touch on each of them within the normal blog. Note: Some are more unfortunate than others Our day started with a talk regarding German politics and the culture around that. It was interesting but in all honesty I was a little confused through…

Today started like any other day. All of us at random points coming down for breakfast, getting ready for the day, but this was not any other day. Today we were going to Dachau, the first Nazi Concentration Camp. It wasn’t our typical sightseeing day. The bus ride there seemed pretty normal, even right before…

The day started out okay, everything was fine and we got to the train station, made it on the very packed train. This was the problem though because there was an idea to try and get on to another car, which would have also been packed, but miscommunication struck and we didn’t understand that’s what…

Seriously I was stuck on this blog for a while simply because I couldn’t think of a title and I didn’t just want to make it Ulm, so kinda that but with a twist…Anyway, we went from the day I was looking forward to most to probably one of my least favorite days I was…

Today was the day I had been looking forward to probably the most on this trip…Neuschwanstein Castle!! When I heard we were going here on this trip I was so excited and couldn’t wait to go. Finally, today was the day! The bus ride there had a great view at one point where we could…

Later start for our 4th day here in Germany  which was nice, yet somehow I was still tired! Luckily there was a long bus ride ahead of us to take a nap. We were headed to Continental for the day where we got a couple presentations, both of which were super interesting and since there…

We had already been filling each day with a lot of activities and keeping busy, but this one was just seemed to be packed to the max. Our third day called for our first site visit of the trip. We went to SGL Group: The Carbon Company. The company grounds were set up somewhat like a…

Our second day was a lot of fun. It started by taking the tram to the university which seemed to be much more efficient than public transport in the US. When we were at the university it felt like the opposite of Pitt’s campus. They had more greenery, a lake/river running through campus, and in…

To describe our first day in Germany it was exciting but packed. Our day started super early because the flight landed at 6:00 and it was go, go, go from there. We took about an hour bus ride from the airport in Munich to Augsburg and arrived at the hotel before we could check in….

Hello! My name is Gemma and I am a student in the College of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, I plan on majoring in Accounting, but am still exploring the possibility of other majors. I will also be working towards a certificate in Leadership and Ethics starting this coming Fall. I’m from…