Ethical Issues in My Profession: In just about any career, you will be faced with making a decision that deals with ethical issues. As a business professional, these issues may involve the health and safety of your customers, respecting the customs of others, and/or following the laws in foreign markets. The health and safety issue…

My last day in China was so busy and so bittersweet that I am writing the blog for it three days later. Thursday night into Friday, I got the best sleep I had all trip (probably because I was finally used to the twelve hour time difference). I woke up refreshed and excited for another…

Today was our final day of company visits and our first visit was at TE Connectivity. This visit was not very exciting for me, primarily because it was geared more towards engineering students. We had the opportunity to tour the factory, and while I knew that what was being done was interesting, I felt as…

Today started as a relatively uneventful day. We hopped on our bus at 8 am and took a two-and-a-half-hour bus ride to Yangshan port, the largest port in the world. We had a speaker talk to us about his career in logistics and in freight forwarding. He was very informative and intelligent, but it certainly…

Today was our second and final university visit. I found the one before this pretty boring, so I was not looking forward to today. The lecture wasn’t all too interesting because it was pretty much the same content as our previous lecture and it consisted primarily of graphs and a dull video. However, this university…

This morning was another early morning (4:45 am) in order to leave Xi’an and head to our final city: Shanghai. Getting to the high speed train was much easier this time compared the last, and the ride was much more comfortable, despite being 6 hours long. I was able to keep myself busy by alternating between…

Today was a never ending day. After very little sleep last night, I was up early to get ready for our extremely busy day. We went to the Terracotta Warriors Museum, where we got to see the terracotta soldiers that have been pieced together, and those who are only partially rebuilt. It is said that…

Today’s activity was one that I had been looking forward to: visiting the Children’s Village. The Children’s Village houses boys and girls from 3-20 years old whose parent(s) are in prison. We arrived at the village and many other visitors were there, whom I assume were donors. We toured the facility and then went into…

I woke up at 4:45 this morning in order to get ready to leave Beijing and head to Xi’an. We went to the train station and took a high speed train. As we were boarding the train, a man approached me and said “Hello, how are you?”. I thought this was odd, but I was…

Today was our last full day in Beijing, and it was jam-packed with activities. The day began at Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. It was so cool to see the beautiful buildings with the traditional Chinese architecture and colors. Building after building looked the same, which sort of became boring after a while. However, by…

I had pretty low expectations for today’s company visits, but I was thoroughly shocked at how much fun they were! The first one of the day was Cheetah Mobile. We pulled up to the facility, which had a full lawn (rare to see in China), Cheetah Mobile sculptures, a glass facade and an overall very…

  Today, we went to the Central University of Finance and Economics, or CUFE. When we first arrived, we went into a lecture hall where we were welcomed. A lecture on Smart Phone Supply Chain Business in China followed the welcome and introduction. This lecture was given by Professor Yao. The lecture was broken down…

Today, Monday May 8, was our first full day in Beijing, China. We landed at 1:20 pm yesterday after a 13 hour flight. Today started off with an interesting breakfast, provided by the hotel. I had eggs, fried rice, noodles, and some sort of dumpling filled with what I think may have been red bean….

1. My international experience to date is… limited to what I’ve seen on tv, read in books, or dreamed of experiencing one day. I have never been out of the United States, or off of the east coast for that matter. I have dreams and goals of traveling a lot in my life because I…