Today is our last full day in The Netherlands. Although I will miss Amsterdam I am more than ready to return home for the rest of the summer. Today instead of going to a company, the company came to us. The company that the group was learning about today was Tony’s Chocolonely which is a…
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Canals and Classes: UVA Tour and Canal Cruise
Day 11 in the Netherlands started with another University Tour. This tour was just a short walk from the hostel which meant we did not take public transportation today. The tour was of the Business school at Universitiet van Amsterdam in East Amsterdam. Like the last tour we went on the main business concept is…
Day in Utrecht
Day 10 in The Netherlands started with a train ride to Utrecht, the city that our tour guide Sophia lives in. For this trip we did not have to run for any trains which I was thankful for and the whole group made it to Utrecht safely. Today our group toured Aurea Imaging, which is…
Planes and Podcasts
Day 10 in the Netherlands started at VU, a local university based in Amsterdam. While at the university we met two tour guides who took us on a short tour of the campus. The tour was similar to a tour that Pitt would give with quick stops at different hot spots on campus. As with…
Day 8: Market and Meeting Alumni
Day 8 in the Netherlands started with discovering a new form of transportation, the ferry. Since it is Sunday the group did not have any academic related site visits but instead we went to a vintage market. To get to the market the group took the free ferry that runs near Centraal Station. One business…
Flooding Frenzy
Day 7 in The Netherlands started at the Waternoods museum outside of Rotterdam. The museum is centered around a flooding event that took place in 1953 which took thousands of Dutch lives and submerged a significant portion of the country. The flooding was caused by a large storm that had broken through some of the…
Moooooo
Today, Day 6 in The Netherlands started off with a delay to our schedule. The group was setting off for Rotterdam when our train was cancelled because of an accident on the track. However, we still arrived in Rotterdam in time to go to the best site visit so far on the trip, Floating Farm. This…
Red Light Bridges
Day 5 in the Netherlands started in the Red Light District as the group was visiting a 3-D printed bridge made by MX3D. MX3D is an industrial 3-D printing company that fills design orders for their consumers. After the bridge the group was taken to the MX3D office in West Amsterdam. We got a presentation…
Flowers and Flora
It is Day 4 in the Netherlands and it was an early start to the day. The group was out of the hostel at 6:30 a.m to go see the flower auction at RoyalFlora Holland. Although I had expected to see the auction in person upon arrival we discovered that the auction was online. So…
Rainy Trip to Zaanse Schans
Day 3 in the Netherlands was full of rain and windmills. Today the group visited an open-air windmill museum called Zaanse Schans. One business principle that I learned during our time at the museum was how the museum generates revenue. Our tour guide Phillipe told us that most of the money comes from pictures that…
Learning Business from an Engineer, Marketing Challenges in Amsterdam
Day two of our trip in Amsterdam started with going to the local university to listen to a speaker, Karel Bockstael who was an executive for KLM. KLM is a popular Dutch founded, European airline, Karel’s last held job at KLM was the Vice President of Sustainability, the main topic of his presentation. The picture…
Back to Dorm Life, Day 1 in the Netherlands
Traveling internationally will always have its challenges and surprises. My first day in The Netherlands was no short of the latter. I thought that after leaving Pitt for the school year I would be done with dorm living for the rest of my life, that was until my group arrived at our sleeping arrangements. The…
Looking to My First Time in the Netherlands
Hello! My name is Ryan Kimball and I am a freshman College of Business Administration student at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Finance. I come from Yardley, Pennsylvania which is in Bucks County in the Philadelphia area . I intend to minor in Economics and Computer Science as well. At Pitt I am a…