One of the reasons why I chose to study in France is because it is part of my heritage. My mother was born in northern France, and was the only member of her family to immigrate to the United States. She rebuilt her life in America while the rest of her family remained in France….
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Recipients of a Martinson Elevate Award
First Week in Oxford!
Hi! My name’s Luca. I’m an English Literature and English Writing: Fiction double major at Pitt, and I’ll be a senior this fall. I flew into England a week ago yesterday, and over the past week I’ve been studying the history of fantasy literature at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford! My first week went…
Final Reflection: What Bavaria Taught Me
If you asked me to name one moment from this trip that I keep coming back to, it is Neuschwanstein. Not the inside of the castle, though the gothic bedroom and the walls covered in paintings of people in love were unlike anything I had seen before. It was the drive into Füssen. The Alps…
The Arc of Connection
Community on this trip built itself slowly, rather than all at once. The first night, over schnitzel and spätzle at a traditional Bavarian restaurant, I remember feeling a little nervous about whether we would actually connect with the German students or just politely coexist for two weeks. That nervousness didn’t survive the meal. They asked…
Hola from Alcalá!
Hello from Alcalá de Henares, Spain! My name is Hailey Marrero, and I am a senior at the University of Pittsburgh. I am double majoring in History and Museum Studies, minoring in Spanish, and participating in a month-long study abroad program called Pitt in Spain. I will be finishing up my minor with the University…
Postcard from Porto
Hi!! I have just returned to Lisbon after spending the loveliest weekend in Porto. Although the study abroad program has taken us outside of Lisbon to Setúbal, Arrábida, and Ribatejo, this was my first full weekend outside of Lisbon and my first trip solely organized by fellow students. My internship supervisors at the Portuguese Council…
Two Weeks Till Colorado and Wyoming!
Now that my 6-week summer Calculus class has ended, it’s finally starting to set in that I’ll soon be back to work, just in a different state this time! At the break of dawn on July 11th, I’ll be on a plane, heading out for my “People and Other Animals – Writing Wyoming” program. I’m…
So Long, London
It’s been about a month since I got back from England and started my internship at the National Institutes of Health this summer, and upon reflecting on all my wonderful memories from my Maymester abroad, it’s quite easy to see how my global experience connects with my intended career path and consider the ways it…
From the Bench to the Bedside: England’s National Health Service
Studying precision health and genomics in England has given my classmates and I some wonderful opportunities to learn from and connect with a number of professors in the Nursing and Public Health fields. As a molecular biology major, it was fascinating to learn about how scientific discoveries at the bench are being integrated into clinical…
Looking Back on Week 2!
Hello! This is week two of my reminiscing of my times abroad in Austria as apart of the Comparative Healthcare in Graz program! Week two was filled with a lot of travel and class. In class, we learn about the History of Austria and the History of Medicine. For the former, we learned about the…