Waking up early, boarding a bus, and waiting at the airport for the plane, I was in a weird bittersweet mix of emotions. Looking out of the window on the way to the airport, I knew that this was the last time I would see the rolling flat hills of Ireland, bordered by stone walls…

It’s been a long yet short trip to Ireland, but to finish things off, we visited Food Cloud for our last site visit. Food Cloud is a food waste company based in Ireland that not only transports excess foods from companies to smaller businesses like local pantries, but also is pioneering various other initiatives to…

Networking. I know that as a business major, networking is one of the most crucial things to my career, but it is still kind of daunting. I am more on the introverted side, but I have no problem rolling the ball once it starts rolling, but making the ball roll is the hard part. When…

Today was a busy day, as we toured to companies today, Microsoft and Thinkhouse. Microsoft is Microsoft, but Thinkhouse is a marketing agency targeted at the youth (ages 16-35), promoting its marketing through creative media. As Victor Seitl at Microsoft was giving us a presentation about AI, data analysis, and the future usage and expansion…

The long awaited day had come, our day trip to the Cliffs of Moher, the iconic tourist symbol of Ireland, excluding Guiness and leprechauns. It was such an amazing sight, reminding me of the Hopewell Cape in Canada, with its sheer right angle cliffs, but the Cliffs of Moher were on another level, at least…

After a busy day at Kilkenny and Glendalough, we took our time this morning to go to the EPIC Irish Immigration Museum. Since this was a museum that many people, from our tour guide yesterday to our historic tour guides in the very first few days had praised, I was excited to see what it…

As a part of our first day trip, we went to Kilkenny and Glendalough, two small towns just an hour or so outside of Dublin. It was rough to wake up at 6:30am in the morning, especially being exhausted by the ten or so miles I walk each day, but the sights that we saw…

For our third company visit in a row, we visited Docusign, rather they visited us. Unfortunately, their building was under maintenance, which forced our speaker for today, Micheal Kelliher, to meet us in a room at Trinity College. I wish we were able to tour the building, since I wanted to compare it to Google’s…

Today, we went to the Docklands, as it’s name entails, a part of Ireland that used to be used as a docking area for ships. There, we met Dr. Kelly, one of our resident historians, in front of the previously used customs house for the dock. While Dr. Kelly took us around the Docklands, explaining…

Today we had a guest lecturer, Ellie Doyle, founder of the TalentHub recruiting startup agency based in Ireland, on a lesson about personal branding. I knew how important it was to have a self identity, but from her talks, I realized how important it is not to just build your unique self identity, but to…

After two exhausting days of traveling around Dublin, first coping with the time difference while walking around Howth, then the second learning more about the history of Dublin and Ireland in general, I am surprised by how different my expectations were of Dublin, Ireland, and Europe in general. I never been to Europe entirely, so…