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What a day, what a week, what a summer!

Leaving the house at 8 and getting home at half 7, I've become a true work-a-holic. But with only 2 days left and a pile of last minute deadlines, there's not much else you can do! It's been a couple of weeks since I blogged, and a lot has...

Published 01-Aug-2012 14:37 by sarah gregg

Filed under: Heriot Watt, Citibank, Friends, reflection, Manila, Philippines, realization

Livin' on a Prayer

I hear back in Scotland it has rained pretty much every day since I left… Well, I can say the same about Florida! Never did I think the weather in Tampa would ruin outdoor plans. I was wrong. Apparently, making outdoor weather plans in Summer requires...

Published 01-Aug-2012 2:35 by Brittany Emma Brown

Filed under: Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Jabil Circuit

Interviewing Two Citi Directors

Published 31-Jul-2012 8:02 by sarah gregg

Filed under: Heriot Watt, Citibank, Manila, Philippines, interviews

Week 6/7 - Going for Gold!

I write this blog on the Sunday evening preceding my final week here in Boston, knowing that this time next week I will be back in the UK (and most probably tucked up in bed as it will be the middle of the night and I'll be feeling very jet lagged...

Published 30-Jul-2012 2:07 by Joanne Greener

Filed under: Boston, Heriot Watt, Liberty Mutual, 2012, Olympics

Week 4/5 - fuzzy wuzzy bear?

So it’s nearly the end of another week and considering week 3’s blog come in the middle of week 4 this blog is going to play a bit of catch up and have both the end of week 4 and week 5 in it. (I know it’s now week 6 but just bear* with...

Published 17-Jul-2012 19:06 by Joanne Greener

Filed under: Boston, Heriot Watt, 2012, 4th July, Liberty Mutual. Collaboration.

mmmm balut!

My poor stomach's had quite alot to go through this week...frogs legs, snails, ostrich, pig knuckles, pig stomach, pig intestine, chicken intestine, balut, and even bacon flavoured ice cream! No one can say that the filipinos aren't an adventurous...

Published 16-Jul-2012 15:20 by sarah gregg

Filed under: Heriot Watt, Citibank, Manila, Philippines, balut

Project 1 Complete!

4 weeks in and I think I'm just about settled in to my monday-friday, 8.30-5.30 routine; Alarm goes off at 7... then 10 past... then 20 past... and at some point I manage to turn off snooze and collect my breakfast delivery (living in a hotel has...

Published 07-Jul-2012 13:31 by sarah gregg

Filed under: Heriot Watt, Citibank, Manila, Philippines

Week 2 - "Ice Ice Baby"

So it's already the end of week two, and there's so many things to talk about since last week; work, film premieres, weather.... The list goes on. I'll start on work, saying as that's the main focus of my trip over to Boston. My workload...

Published 23-Jun-2012 17:03 by Joanne Greener

Filed under: Heriot Watt, Heat., Vanilla Ice, Boston. Liberty Mutual. Collaboration. Commerical Marketin

Week 1 - time flies....

So, week 1 in Boston is over and already I have experienced so many things and come across so many people (it would be difficult not being an intern at a company as big as Liberty Mutual - 4000 employees in Boston alone!!). My journey began last Friday...

Published 16-Jun-2012 0:50 by Joanne Greener

Filed under: Boston, Heriot Watt, Liberty Mutual, Fenway, product management

Sesame Peanut Butter Fish Sandwich

They say that Asia serves some of the worlds great cuisines, the peanut butter company store beside Cititower is not one of these gourmet destinations. However after a 10 hour day at work, we (me and tom tasker) decided we were hungry enough to try this...

Published 13-Jun-2012 17:07 by sarah gregg

Filed under: Heriot Watt, Citigroup, Independence day, Manila, Philippines, Sesame Peanut Butter Fish Sandwiches

Beginning of my amazing summer with Barclays Wealth In Singapore...

I feel like it has already started ... To quickly introduce myself my name is Monika Strek, I am studying Management at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and I’m going to Singapore to work as Business Analyst for one of the most successful Banks...

Published 09-Jun-2012 2:09 by Monika Strek

Filed under: Heriot Watt, Singapore

My Journey to Becoming Imelda Marcos

Ok, so I'm never going to become Miss Manila, marry the president and corrupt a whole country in my 8 weeks in the philippines, but the 2700 pairs of shoes thing gives me something to aspire to! Having packed a measly 5 pairs of shoes, half a pharamacy...

Published 05-Jun-2012 11:33 by sarah gregg

Filed under: Asia-Pacific, Heriot Watt, Edinburgh, Citigroup, leadership day, Manila, Philippines, Shoes

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 10

Up until the last week or so my time here has seen a very smooth unfolding of events at the power plant, but this is no longer the case as I mentioned in my previous blog. Stress levels are on the increase with the staff here as every time a problem is...

Published 06-Sep-2011 10:20 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, General Electric, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 9

This week at the Moerdijk power plant we introduced a new toy to our arsenal to help me carry out my work as steam chemistry engineer. As some of you may know, or perhaps not, Silica is present in the steam system as it is used for steam attemperation...

Published 29-Aug-2011 13:29 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, General Electric, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 8

08/08/2011 - 14/08/2011 So the beginning of a new week and we didn’t get off to a good start at the power plant. The plant tripped (shutdown automatically, kind of like when you stall your car) because of a vibration in bearing 6 of the steam turbine...

Published 23-Aug-2011 7:43 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, General Electric, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol

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What a day, what a week, what a summer!

Livin' on a Prayer

Interviewing Two Citi Directors

Week 6/7 - Going for Gold!

Week 4/5 - fuzzy wuzzy bear?

mmmm balut!

Project 1 Complete!

Week 2 - "Ice Ice Baby"

Week 1 - time flies....

Sesame Peanut Butter Fish Sandwich

Beginning of my amazing summer with Barclays Wealth In Singapore...

My Journey to Becoming Imelda Marcos

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 10

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 9

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 8