It doesn’t feel real how fast the days have gone by. Today was our last site visit at the Cat Lai Terminal and it was definitely different than the rest. I’ve never been to a shipping container shipyard before and it was interesting to see how the supply chain of imports and exports works. The…
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Day 9: Peace and War
Today was a super calming as it started out with a history lesson at UEF about Buddhism and where it came from. The origins were really fascinating and I found it strange how only about 14% of the population of Vietnam is Buddhist when it seems like such an important part of their culture. After…
Day 8: Sports and Supply Chain
The Coherent site visit was probably the most important company across the globe that we’ve visited yet, and we didn’t even know. Coherent is a company that utilizes powerful and precise light tools as well as normal operations to create things that are integral to modern life. Some products and services they focus on include,…
Day 6: Mekong Delta Day
The Mekong Delta was the day that I was looking forward to the most before the trip started, and it did not disappoint. Right as we got to the market, it started pouring rain. Great start to our day. But, by the time we got onto the bus again and reached the dock, the rain…
Day 5: Speeding Into the Weekend
Today’s site visit was probably the most interesting to me because it was about video game design, and I’ve played video games my whole life, including the ones that GlassEgg deals with on a daily basis. GlassEgg does many different projects, but the main one that they focus on is vehicle design. It was intriguing…
Day 4: An Experience Like No Other
Somehow every day just keeps getting better and better. When researching Vina Capital and talking about it in our presentations for the Plus3 class, I never really fully understood what they were trying to do and how big the issue was that they were trying to solve. This lead me to really want to get…
Day 3: Peeking into Employee Quality of Life
The arrival to UEF was similar to yesterday as we got up to the ninth floor began our lecture on the green development in Vietnam. Some of the points that resonated with me most in the lecture were that Vietnam was trying to go more green because they wanted to lower costs and have a…
Day 2: Doing a lot With a Little
Day 2 started off similarly to day 1 in terms of breakfast, more pho and fried rice with some coffee and I was feeling energetic and excited about what this new day would bring. We headed over to UEF to start learning about the history behind the Mekong Delta and some of the contributions, challenges,…