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A Week Down in The Lone Star State

As I sit here in my spacious office overlooking greenery, provided by Houston’s abundance of trees, the odd rather dated looking office building and a solitary American flag flying in the distance it is difficult to comprehend where the past eleven days have gone. Eleven days? I really should have...

Posted to Undergraduates by Morven Logan on 18-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: internship, saltire, gas, Texas, business development, Marketing, Scottish, America, Energy, entrepreneurship, Scotland, Business, Glasgow, work environment, women, photographs, flexpipe systems, aberdeen university, houstonston, analysis, service company, morven logan, commercial, women in oil and gas, Oil &amp, women in management

Hello Texas! An introductory post....

Hi Folks! My name is Morven Logan and I am the sole Scottish intern working at Flexpipe Systems in Houston, Texas. The placement is centred around the product marketing of the company's composite pipeline offering to the oil and gas industry. No doubt I will have a lot more information on my role...

Posted to Undergraduates by Morven Logan on 09-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Houston, Texas, Marketing, Scottish, America, Energy, Scotland, Business, oil and gas, lone star state, flexpipe

Internships in Scotland

The Saltire Foundation is one of several organisations opening up funded internship opportunities to students at Scottish universities. For students who aren’t eligible (yet) for Saltire or missed our deadline (reopening for application in November), I’d like to point out some of the other...

Posted to The Foundation Blog by ClaireJohnston on 11-Feb-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Scotland, internships, Undergraduate, Intern

Thank you for the summer..

Dear summer in the US, I have started writing this blog while I was waiting for boarding in the airport. My last hours in Houston....Can't believe that summer is almost over, can't believe that my internship is over....10 weeks of excitement, work, fun, stress, emotions flew by.... leaving behind...

Posted to Undergraduates by Anda-Lucia Flintoaca on 18-Sep-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Houston, Texas, Scotland, University of Edinburgh, JP Morgan, summer

Scotland and Start-Ups

Its one of the best things in the world to be working with start-up entrepreneurs... So much to keep up with. BBC Scotland are following some of them... Great for Scotland! Great for start-ups http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-19347402

Posted to Fellow by Jim Duffy on 14-Sep-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Business, entrepreneur, focus, Economic Development, Creativity, Scottish Entrepreneur, Scotland, start-up

So the other side of the internship, back in Scotland processing the whole summer, my last blog...

I wanted to write this blog before now, but in a way its worked out that I have more precise thoughts about the summer in Florida now due almost being home for two weeks with time to think. I cannot believe I felt like I had forever in St Petersburg at Jabil, and it was basically over in a blink of an...

Posted to Undergraduates by Raymond Leadingham on 03-Sep-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Saltire Foundation, USA, St Petersburg, Florida, Jabil Circuit, Scotland, Raymondnd Leadingham

The world is your oyster...

I have been putting off writing this blog post for a couple of reasons. One being the general lack of time I have had since completing my internship (after finishing up on Friday 3rd I then had to get myself all packed up to head over to South Africa to visit family on the 5th), secondly, I didn't...

Posted to Undergraduates by Katrina Barry on 09-Aug-2012
Filed under: Filed under: business development, Edinburgh, Scotland, South Africa, Tenders, Brodiess LLP

What an amazing Summer :) .... I Love Luxembourg

After an amazing 8 weeks I'm back in Scotland and missing my little flat in Lux already. My final week in work was time for me present my final project overview and after weeks of planning I finally finsihed it. Despite my nerves I was able to make it through and made my proposals and my further...

Posted to 2 Cases Down..... by Emma Denman on 05-Aug-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Amazon, Heriot watt, Scotland, Goodbye, Palace, Last Day, Saltire

Week 6... Blog 1

Disgraceful lack of blogging from me, so I'll get my excuses in early by describing the routine of the past 6 weeks. I am working at William Grant & Sons distillery in Girvan, where the company are putting us up in a bed and breakfast from Monday to Friday. The working day at Grant's is 8...

Posted to Undergraduates by Craig Lees on 22-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Scotland, Whisky, Grants, Girvan

Networking Networking Networking

So another week has passed, and the majority of us will now only have 3 weeks left - wow! It has gone so fast and I really wish it didn't have to come to an end!! Last Monday (the 9th July) saw the beginning of my placement in the Business Development department of Brodies, and it has been yet another...

Posted to Undergraduates by Katrina Barry on 15-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: business development, Edinburgh, Networking, Scotland, Scholars 2012, Brodies

Its raining its pouring!!

Well were here at the half way mark I can't believe how quickly the time has gone in...So update from Scotland its raining like no other summer I've ever seen before it has well and truly out done itself this year...poor Andy Murray lost in the Wimbledon final against Federer and gave a very...

Posted to Undergraduates by Julie Griffin on 09-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: saltire, Vets Now, Scotland, Undergraduates, 2012, Saltire Internship

Austin 3:16

0 0 1 837 4774 University of Strathclyde 39 11 5600 14.0 96 800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB JA X-NONE 0 0 1 1031 5878 University of Strathclyde 48 13 6896 14.0 96 800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB JA X-NONE Well Week 4 is underway in the good ol’ state of Texas. A lot went on in...

Posted to Undergraduates by Jordan Spittal on 07-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: wood group, Scotland, Austin, international

Safari Park in the Rain!

’Raindrops keep falling on my head’’ ‘’I’m singing in the Rain…just singing in the Rain’’ ‘’Under my umbrella…ella ella eh eh eh ’’ These songs just keep playing around and around in my head! The title of my last blog...

Posted to Undergraduates by Alice Leyshon on 04-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: rain, Scotland, Edrington Group, Blair Drummond Safari, Crieff, Whisky

Learning to handle the heat!

I’ve titled this post “Learning to handle the heat” because it seemed to fit as a description for my great experiences in the last couple of weeks living in Boston as a Liberty Mutual intern. If any of you have read the blogs of the other Boston interns this week, you might well be...

Posted to Undergraduates by Tala Byrne on 26-Jun-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual, Irn-Bru, Networking, Scotland, 2012 Scholar, Weather, goals, Irn Bru, personal markets, objectives, aims

I suck at blogging...

So, I sat down this evening and I decided that since it is the beginning of my third week at Brodies and that I promised I would blog in my first week, quite simply, I suck at blogging. Therefore, I thought that would make a suitable blog title. However, my theory couldn't have been more justified...

Posted to Undergraduates by Katrina Barry on 25-Jun-2012
Filed under: Filed under: saltire, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012, Brodies LLP, Human Resources, Scholars