Plus 3 Germany was everything I wanted it to be and more. I truly learned a lot on this trip. I came away with so much knowledge relating to the automotive industry that I would never have learned without this trip. This knowledge has led me to become even more interested in cars and now…

Today was our final day of the trip. We visited Salzburg, which was absolutely beautiful. It was also exciting to visit a new country I’ve never seen before. We first started with our train ride which was packed, and we had to stand the entire ride. After what felt like forever we finally arrived in…

Today was our final official day of the program, presentation day. I slept in the most I have the entire trip waking up at about 9:30 which felt great. I then ate breakfast and a few hours later headed to the university for lunch and final practice. Our final practice went well, and we were…

We had our final tour that was a part of the program and our last day before presentations! I think today was the day I’ve been looking forward to the most as we were touring Neuschwanstein. Unfortunately, the weather was awful as it was cold, rainy, and foggy, but we were still stoked. While the…

Today was our tour of Dachau. I plan to keep this blog short as I don’t have too much to say about this awful place. We had a wonderful tour that I feel was very informative and taught me a lot. Walking around and learning about all the unspeakable things that happened here was very…

Today was our visit to Munich. It was a really great time exploring a new city. We started with a wonderful tour of the city, stopping at important places to learn more and take pictures. Weeven stopped at the original Hofbräuhaus. After our tour we got some bratwurst which was incredible and then we beganwalking…

Today was the day we were all waiting for, The Audi Tour. We started with a bus ride to Ingolstadt to the Audi factory. Our group started with a tour of the factory first. It was so cool to see everything being made and I really enjoyed getting a firsthand look at how a car…

Today we started our day with Weiss Wurst breakfast. This traditional Germanbreakfast of white sausage and pretzels was something I was very excited for.It lived up to my expectations as it was unique and interesting, but thesausage and Pretzels were a great combination and what I found funny was thatall the Germans were drinking beer…

Today was our visit to GROB which was incredible and very enlightening! We started off with a presentation about the company and learned some very exciting things. We learned about the company and the products they make for companies like Tesla and Rivian. I was shocked to learn this as these are companies I’m very…

Germany is growing on me more and more every day! We did a lot today and it was wonderful. We started with a tour of the University of Augsburg and began working on our introductory presentations for the day about our companies. It was great to learn more about our companies and the other companies…

After an incredibly long day of travel, we finally arrived in Munich at 7am Munich time. We made it through customs quickly and began our journey to Augsburg, but soon the jetlag started to kick in. The bus ride was full of new experiences as we saw many new things to me like beautiful canola…

Hello! My name is Nolan Palladino, and I’m a freshman in the College of Business Administration majoring in Accounting and BIS. I also plan on minoring in economics and completing a Certificate in Data Analytics. I’ve been interested in business ever since I can remember and always knew it was meant for me. In my…