I tell my friends constantly back home that Georgia is an underrated location on all fronts: for tourists outside of former Soviet states, for business and investment, for food and wine connoisseurs, and for the increasingly popular pool of ‘digital nomads’ around the world. If I were to become a full-time resident of Georgia, I…
Tag: Summer 2022
Wrapping Up My Senate Internship
As my internship has now come to a close, I will be checking in one last time with a reflection about this experience. I have gained many new skills throughout my internship on the Hill, and I am excited to share some takeaways from my experience. Academically, I gained a deeper appreciation for the intersectionality…
The Power of the Notes App
I have a Notes app entry called “Georgia Chaos Log” where I chronicle every challenging or humorous moment of my abroad experience that I don’t want to forget. Some of these entries include helping my host mom put out a kitchen fire, conspiracy theories about Americans that I hear, or getting hit with a door…
Wyoming Spring Creek: A Final Goodbye
Overall, my study away experience was one of the most memorable experiences of my life time. I learned a lot, saw a lot, and made a lot of new friends. I notice as I read some of my classmates final blog posts that many of them wrote a kind of love letter to Wyoming. I…
Wrapping up my Community Research Fellowship
This was a great experience for me this summer. I learned a lot about my specific project and about research in general. In the beginning of this fellowship, I had the idea that this research would be really cut and dry. I thought that I would be looking at contracts and complaint data and finding…
Wyoming Spring Creek: A Short Six Weeks
After you return back to normal life in West Virginia post-Wyoming, you’ll look fondly on your adventures out west. I know you don’t have too many expectations going into it, but just know this field study was honestly a perfect balance of academic and personal growth surrounded by individuals passionate about the same thing you…
My Cohort
One extremely unique and cool aspect of the Brackenridge Summer Fellowship is the ability it gives me to learn more about projects that aren’t necessarily in my field of expertise, due to the cohort being so interdisciplinary. Over the course of initial discussions about my peers’ research projects, I was able to learn more about…
Wyoming Spring Creek: Letter to Myself
This letter begins with immense gratitude for my past self. I am so amazed and thankful for her for feeling so eager to experience the world, and then proving it to herself by making it happen. In a way, I still cannot believe that you threw yourself into completely new academic, social, and physical situations…
Goodbye TSP – Hello Pitt
Hi everyone! This summer has gone by so quickly and I can’t believe my time with The Sentencing Project is over. I am so grateful for my time spent in Washington DC and I will never forget the projects I was fortunate to work on and the people I met along the way. I wouldn’t…
A Take on Leadership @ the CEC!
Hi all! It’s Sarah, and I’m back with another exciting update on what’s been happening at the CEC over the past few months. We’ve been hosting many incredible events, many of which are focused on providing STEAM opportunities as a part of our New Granada STEAM Initiative. Since my last update, I have helped support…