August 2010 - Undergraduates - Saltire Foundation Community

Mounting Pressure: wrapping up

Hi everyone! this will have to be a very short post because the pressure in the office is quite high right now. It's the end of the quarter and they're reviewing everything that's been happening in the last 12 weeks, and that includes everything...

Published 31-Aug-2010 22:54 by Adina Roth

Filed under: week 8, california, final presentation, wrapping up

By Morning Light, Muse and a BIG Cup of Coffee

So it's 6:50 am, I've been up since 5:20, and right now I'm on a train to Switzerland to see the sights of Zurich. Knights of Cydonia is playing loudly enough to wake the dead and caffeine is being fed to me through an intravenous drip. Well...

Published 31-Aug-2010 22:10 by Iain Morrison

Filed under: Saltire Foundation, Culture, week 6, Fresenius, Germany, Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Challenge, Exploration

All Good Things Must Come to an End

I have just touched back down in the UK after an incredible two months. The last week was fantastic, and a great way to end. We had been told earlier in the week that myself and Jennifer would have to present our projects in front of two bosses; the vice...

Published 31-Aug-2010 19:19 by Henry White

Only 3 days left!!

Week 7 passed in a flash, just as the 6 weeks before it. As the project I have been working on began to wrap up, I was assigned a second project which was a useful extension to the first. I have spent the last week developing a method that will make the...

Published 31-Aug-2010 17:21 by Rhona Millar

Filed under: finance, week 7, switzerland, Syngenta, University of St Andrews, Basel, zurich

California Girls

Hey everyone hope your all having a fantastic last week! I'm continuing to work with my project and getting down to analysing the data. I've also started to use mapping software to illustrate my findings that I've to present to my boss on...

Published 31-Aug-2010 16:41 by Alison Laing

Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual., week 8, liberty Mutual. marketing, Liberty Mutual, Caffeine

Artificial Intelligence, hOOters and a temperamental "cart"!!

Hey guys! Time for an update. We don’t have long left but my days at work are as busy as ever, if not more so! I have finished compiling the online courses for the OPAL® learning tool and these will be published within the next week. It is great...

Published 31-Aug-2010 14:44 by Tanya Fletcher

***'s, drama and Monday night Rrrrrrrrrrrrawww!

I cannot believe we are in our final week already and I can now start saying 'On Monday I will have a long lie!' I've decided that I am probably missing sleep most over here as we are constantly 'on the go' and just don't have...

Published 31-Aug-2010 13:17 by Christine Barr

Attention Saltire Interns!

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Attention Saltire Interns, Proctor & Gamble, the company responsible for providing some of the worlds most recognisable household named brands are offering Saltire Foundation...

Published 31-Aug-2010 13:13 by Allan Easton

Filed under: opportunity, saltire, Proctor, Gamble, alumni

The last stretch

Hi everyone, So I finally managed to get to my first baseball game at the week end out the way! Sadly San Francisco Giants lost (badly) so perhaps wasn’t the best game to break my baseball virginity. Despite the lose it really was a great day out...

Published 31-Aug-2010 5:59 by Murray Robertson

This Is It!!!

Well, well its week 7 in St Petersburg Florida and this time next week I will be at home in Scotland. The last few weeks have again disappeared but then so has the last 8 weeks so don’t know why I thought it would be any different. Although I am...

Published 30-Aug-2010 19:47 by KIRSTY FLETT

Filed under: internship, St Petersburg, Florida, Jabil Circuit

An extra little message..

Just thought I would add a little mention that I forgot to add on to my last entry. Christine's mum and her boyfriend are over at the moment and they took me out for a lovely dinner last Thursday night..so a big thank you to all three of them :) And...

Published 30-Aug-2010 19:12 by Stephanie Armstrong

The final yard...

As I sit here writing this final blog from across the ocean, I cannot help but wonder where the last two months have gone. It genuinely seems like only yesterday that I was sitting in the departure lounge of Glasgow airport waiting anxiously for a 'familiar'...

Published 30-Aug-2010 17:53 by Graeme Sharpe

It's the final countdown...duh duh duh duhhh, duh duh duh duh duh (my titles are getting worse..it's a theme)!

Week 7 has flown by far too fast and I am sad to say that we are officially in the 5 day countdown to leaving Boston for the summer. Work has reached a steady state, whereby I am comfortable in the areas that I am trained on, and know my daily tasks that...

Published 30-Aug-2010 16:55 by Stephanie Armstrong

Filed under: Boston, Genzyme, week 7, University of St Andrews

Test Burn

As with the title, our project reached a lovely conclusion with the test burn at the start of week 6. Everything had been leading up to the field test: liaisons with the supplier, investigations into the financial/technical/environmental issues, investigating...

Published 30-Aug-2010 15:18 by Chris Macnair

Shenzhen, over and out....

Hello again, I know all the other interns are saying the same thing, but I really have no idea where the time has gone. I remember sitting in the airport on the way to China thinking about what I was doing two months prior and thinking how far ago it...

Published 30-Aug-2010 12:01 by Douglas McLaren

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