Are you one of Ohio State’s 1,130 students studying abroad this summer? Here — a postcard from us to you!
Now it’s your turn. Head to go.osu.edu/postcards and drop us a line!
(via ocarinaanya)
What a week.
I’m so thankful I got to spend it with these folks (I believe I referred to them as ‘hooligans’ more than once). The top photo is all of the VC juniors studying here in Deutschland along with our professor, and the bottom photo is all of the German exchange students who were at OSU last semester.
It was a full house here in the flat. And I couldn’t have been happier about that. Although it was International Seminar Week at HfG, it felt like a mini reunion. I have made some great friends in these Germans, and I was glad to have them around. By the end of the week, we had bonded over sleep deprivation, accidental puns, and a bunch of other shenanigans.
Oh, and they helped my German along. So now I speak this weird hybrid of German English. Pretty cool, huh?
These guys are top notch. Sie sind meine Freunde.
Nun, wir sind so dankbar, dass du es mit uns geteilt! (We didn’t have any German friends around to help us out with our German, so we turned to Google Translate. Verständlich?)
Matheus De Nardo’s summer internship found him meeting with Peruvian coffee farmers in the Amazonian foothills while working for an international fair trade coffee company — learn more at the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Science’s Student Blog.
Ohio State women’s ice hockey player Tina Hollowell, studying abroad in Brazil, is live-tweeting her experiences abroad — follow her here!
Ohio State student athletes are all over the world this summer, and the official athletics site is conveniently gathering all of their blogs in one place. Just saying.
As part of the Ghana Sustainable Change Program, Charisma Acey led a group of city and regional planning students as they traveled to Ghana to create a base map for the Offinso North District. Using iPads and the built-in geolocation services, the students were able to move through the community photographing and geotagging homes, as well as identify needs in terms of water service, waste removal and other basic services. The data was turned over to local officials who are using it to address patterns of needs in their community.
Learn more about the Ghana Sustainable Change Program from the College of Engineering.
Are you a graduate student? Studying business? Do you attend Ohio State? Have you been looking for a way to fund a study abroad opportunity? Should you just click the link at this point? (Good — we’re out of questions anyway.)
Ohio State students spending three months in Shanghai, interning with the likes of such large corporations as Cardinal Health and Bosch, spent some time with Jake Parker, manager of business advisory services for the U.S. Chinese Business Council — and an Ohio State alumnus — who has been living and working in Shanghai for the past three years.
Parker — who earned a master’s degree in Chinese through Ohio State’s Chinese Flagship Program and serves as president of the Ohio State Alumni Club in Shanghai — provided the students with tips on how to make the most of their internship and shared his insight on the many nuances of doing business in China.
“When I was a freshman, I really wanted to do research into the ties between gender and water access in rural India.”
Was Ohio State able to make Katie Ferman’s dream come true?
(SPOILER ALERT: Yes.)
We got a postcard, we got a postcard! From Maureen in China:
“Today Ohio State students participating in the Global Internship Program in Shanghai received a personal tour of Bosch, a multinational engineering and electronics company that has 350 subsidiaries in over 60 countries. Kevin Zhu, an Ohio State alumnus, worked with Ohio State’s China Gateway office to arrange for a three-month summer internship to be offered to an Ohio State student. Zhu, who received a master’s degree from Ohio Sate in industrial and systems engineering, has worked at Bosch for the past three years, including a six-month stint in Germany, the company’s headquarters.”
Learn more about the China Gateway or the Global Internship Program at the Office of International Affairs website.
Learning about Tibetan Ben Religion … visiting Kuan Zhai Alley, which showcases the architecture of the Qing Dynasty, and is one of three conservation districts of historic sites in Chengdu … send Ohio State students to China, and you just can’t stop them from knowing and engaging the world!
Click through each image for a caption from Maureen. More info on that second photo:
“Dating back to the Qin Dynasty, Jinli Street in Chengdu was one of the stopping points for students participating in the China Global May study abroad program. In ancient times, Jinli Street was a commercial mecca during the Kingdom of Shu and today is a popular attraction for visitors to view the architecture and culture of the Three Kingdoms Period. Ohio State’s study abroad program pairs students with English speaking students from the Southwest University of Nationalities in Chengdu to ensure a deeper cultural experience that ultimately forges long-lasting friendships.”
