My international experience(s) to date is(are): I was born in Vietnam and lived there until I was two and a half years old. I don't remember much of my time while I was there but have been back twice since receiving the opportunity to migrate here from the US Government. Outside of my parent country, I've been to the UAE, visiting Dubai and Abu Dhabi as a part of E-Scholars and also visited Mexico last summer for a vacation with a small group of friends from Hig...

I don't know how China keeps doing it but every day on this trip has provided me with another something amazing to wonder over. The first trip on today's agenda was to visit the Urban Planning Center. I did not have a strong idea of what urban planning meant but as soon as I entered the building, I understood the monumental scale of the job. Within the building was a massive, to-scale model of 1/16 of the entire city of Shanghai. I wish I was better at English an...

Today's experiences in China was a good mixture between cultural visits and professional development. At ATKearney, it was very interesting to learn about the differences in supply chain between a company doing business in the US vs in China. I couldn't tell why, but I was extremely fascinated with how China handled their cashflow and when they received payment for their services. In the States, you usually pay prior to receiving a service and can file for a refu...

If the curriculumn for our class only included today's conversations and experiences with AECOM, personal interviews & meetings with the university students, it would have been worth it. I don't think I could've learned so much about global engineering & China anywhere else in the world. You really need to travel and experience this new culture and environment firsthand, words do cannot do it justice. The first half of our day consisted of a long, but ve...

The first half of the day was spent doing cultural events and visiting some of China's iconic places. We visited the Forbidden City and Tianenmen Square and marveled at how grand the places were. It's a little hard to imagine how they were able to construct so much with so little knowledge of modern physics and mathematics. One downside I noticed about the constructions was that they did not make it easy for less-abled people to navigate throughout the Forbbiden ...