September 2009 - Undergraduates

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  • Recharge and reflect

    It seems I had only seconds between touching down in Glasgow airport before I was already having to get into uni mode so to summarise consisely exactly how I feel about this placement, and my experience with GSK both in Montrose and in Singapore is truly...

  • Back to Reality

    This summer has been a life changing experience that I will never forget. I can not thank the Saltire Foundation team enough for giving me this amazing opportunity. My fellow Boston interns will agree and most likely giggle when I say my last week in...

  • Leadership on the Frontline

    Sometimes in life you have one of those conversations that will stay with you forever, the type of discussion that changes the way you think. Today was one of those days. Over the course of the past eight weeks, the other Houston interns and I have talked...
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  • Final Farewell!

    Nearly eight weeks gone and my time interning in LA is drawing to an end….the experience has been amazing and has opened my eyes to so many opportunities while time has flown by I have had the best times of my life. I had my final conference call...

  • Fashionably Late..

    Monday at MX was a busy day as Katrina was getting ready to leave for business and I would not see her again before leaving LA so we had a final farewell before she was picked up for the airport. As MX lost one member of staff they gained another in David...

  • The Career Game and a simple Thank You

    This summer has been nothing short of a genuine life-changing experience and I will always be grateful to the staff at the Saltire Foundation and at Wood Group for granting me with this amazing and unrivalled opportunity. I have come back to Scotland...

  • Reflections

    I have been home for nearly a week now and have slowly adjusted to the time difference and the much colder weather. It is certainly nice to be home. The last week in work was perhaps the most exciting one, it saw the culmination of my project the results...

  • Home Sweet Home

    Normal 0 After much packing, many farewells, a taxi ride, an express train, two flights and 4 movies, I made it back to bonnie Scotland! Even though I've been home since Sunday night, it still feels really strange not to hear cicadas screeching or...
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  • final word...

    Hi everyone I will make this post short. Today is my final day here at Bayer in Leverkusen. My placement lasted 4 weeks and during that time I managed to complete a project that was originally planned for 8 weeks internship so I think that should leave...

  • Another dime another day...

    I have been in LA now for nearly 6 weeks now and I love everything about this city…even the homeless people who dance in the street all day just because they feel like it! Sadly I got the flu so had to go home early from MediaXchange on Monday...

  • last 2 weeks!

    How can it be over!!! My last 2 weeks at Bayer were spent finishing off all my projects. My internet analysis report eventually came to an end. I was pleased to discover I had gathered some useful information with regards to patient’s opinions of...

  • My Way

    Over the past two weeks within Liberty Mutual I have gained practical experience of the responsibilities and functions of a High Yield Trader through shadowing opportunities. I learned of the process of buying and selling High Yields, the role of leverage...

  • auf wiedersehen bundesrepublik deutschland

    Hello everyone, Apologies for not submitting a blog post in the week before last. There were a lot more interesting things going on this week, which I thought I could bundle into my last post. The most interesting highlight of the last 2 weeks was meeting...

  • Not just your regular internship

    The above line summarizes effectively how I felt at Bayer. Whilst the tasks were similar to other the other interns the sheer amount of doors that Saltire opened was simply fantastic. This week for instance we met the CEO of the largest Bayer subgroup...

  • Auf Wiedersehen Swizerland

    Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Well that is it! I’m on the train whizzing through the English countryside going back to what can only be predicted as a rainy Newcastle , somewhat of a far cry from the unexpectedly glorious Swiss weather. It...
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