So in the next few weeks, expect a sentimental, end-of-year sappy wrap-up post. And then get ready for internship updates! But there is one (unrelated) post I wanted to get out first. When I was shopping for classes, I kept hearing one piece of advice over and over again: take classes outside of GSE. (In fact, I think I gave you the same advice earlier … Continue reading Branching Out of GSE: Courses in Other Schools
We have another guest post this week! Xuning Zhang is an IEDP student, originally from Beijing, who completed her undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt last year. Xuning is interested in early childhood development. If you are a regular reader of the IEDP blog, you’ll know how close our cohort is. Not only do we take classes together, we also explore restaurants, go to on-campus events, and … Continue reading Guest Post: Life Outside IEDP
This week’s guest post is by current IEDP student Lisha Almeida. Lisha is from Mumbai, and before coming to IEDP she was a Teach for India fellow and worked in teacher training. With the Philly weather still being unseasonably chilly this past month, we were all ready for Mexico’s warm, warm welcome. As Arianna mentioned in her previous post, the Comparative and International Education Society … Continue reading Guest Post: CIES – A Whirlwind of Networking, Nopales and Knowledge for a Lifetime
This is going to be a quick post, just to tell you what spring is like for IEDP. One word: whirlwind! Time has been flying by, and I can’t believe there’s really only six weeks until we’re pretty much wrapped up for the semester, and seven weeks until many of us will walk in GSE’s commencement ceremony. Spring semester (can we even call it spring … Continue reading The 6-Week Countdown Starts Now
Told you that you wouldn’t have to wait a month for the next post! For the next installation of How to Find Your Dream Home – IEDP Edition, I got some help from some of my cohort, and we’re sharing our own experiences finding a place to live. Me – Five-bedroom house in West Philly; used Craigslist I found an open room in a house … Continue reading Finding Housing in Philly (Part 2): Home Sweet Home
I definitely owe you guys a blog…Things have been a little more hectic and crazy this semester than last. Last semester there seemed to be more of an easing-in period with classes, and this semester that has definitely not been the case. Not to mention the additional stress of internship placements and (for some of us) preparing for our presentations at the CIES annual conference … Continue reading Finding Housing in Philly (Part 1): Know Your Neighborhoods
I noticed recently, in rereading my previous blog posts, that I tend to use a lot of lists and steps and bullets. This is pretty reflective of my attitude toward life in general: I have a habit of making to-do lists, wanting to break things into manageable chunks, and tend towards a fairly linear way of thinking. (I was even a logic model for Halloween…) … Continue reading Thinking Outside of the Box: Personal Reflections of a Recovering Type-A Human
To my dedicated readers (all two of you), sorry for the extended break. I was in hibernation mode over winter break, and trying to avoid the extreme temperatures and bomb cyclones that hit Philly by spending some time on the much milder West Coast. I was not the only IEDPer having a fun time… But, alas, the time for nine+ hours of sleep a night … Continue reading Course Shopping (Not Exactly Retail Therapy)
We have another guest post on the blog this week! Ujjwala Maharjan is a current IEDP student from Nepal, and is one of the founding members of the Word Warriors, Nepal’s first spoken word poetry group. Do you know those moments in life when you look around your group of friends and you realize that you LOVE these people and you have this urge to … Continue reading Guest Post: I Get by With a Little Help From My Friends
Summaries appear in several ways, though they always depend on the situation. For this internship, they can be formal, shaped into final reports and reflections both written and spoken that are shared with supervisors and professors. As I’ve found with family members, the summary is often confined to a few sentences that use far too many blanket statements. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll have an … Continue reading Internship reflections
The International Educational Development Program 