Field Notes (Blog)
Noted on December 7, 2010 | By IE3 Student in
The 3rd annual Northwest Returnee Conference for education abroad students will be held on January 22, 2011, in Portland OR.
So you participated in an IE3 global internship, and now you’re back on campus. It may seem strange to be back, hanging out with your “old” friends and settling back into your normal student life, after spending a term, semester, or entire academic year abroad. Do you miss the friends you made abroad? Do you think about new favorite food and music you discovered while overseas? Are your friends and family tired of…
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Noted on November 29, 2010 | By IE3 Student in
CNN recently shared its predictions for the job market that college graduates will face in 2011 and, not surprisingly, internships completed before the end of college provide a major boost in the eyes of potential employers. The article reports that "...gaining professional experience before graduation is the ultimate pipeline toward full-time employment."
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Noted on November 23, 2010 | By Giustina Pelosi in
by Rachel Rustad: Portland State University student and IE3 Scholarship Recipient interning with Grassroots Community Development in India.
Mumbai is a lot more difficult than Rajgurunagar was. Traffic, noise, pollution, absolute and utter poverty, beggars, so many children on the street, the jam packed trains to work and back every morning and the slums we pass every day each way, the kindness of strangers when I was throwing up on the train yesterday (during peak hours no less, which means the train…
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Noted on November 15, 2010 | By IE3 Student in
By Kayla Vickaryous: Concordia University student and IE3 intern for Women In Progress in Cape Coast, Ghana
I can’t believe it’s been eight weeks since I left the U.S. While it seems like I’ve seen and done so much in the last few months, the time has flown by. Everything about life here is becoming more and more comfortable by the day. This house has become my home (at least temporarily) and the people I live and work with have begun…
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Noted on November 9, 2010 | By IE3 Student in
By Lena Walker: Portland State University students and IE3 intern at the American Studies Center at the Linguistic University (LUNN) in Nizhny, Russia.
The Russian word for granulated coffee is “dissolving coffee”, while the English term is “instant coffee” – a small, but interesting and poignant difference between the two cultures. While the English phrase focuses on the result, the Russian phrase is more concerned with the process. Russians can wait for something with a Buddha-like patience, staring off into space or talking to one another for an hour or more…
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