For seven weeks, I have been given the opportunity to intern at a major fashion and lifestyle public relations agency called Purple PR. Ranging from leading global brands to the underground scene of the next generation of upcoming stylists, Purple deals with many types of customer within the fashion, beauty,…
The reality of how soon I’m leaving London has started to settle in. Once I started my internship and realized that basically my only free time would be the weekends, I panicked a bit. I realized that there were still so many things I wanted to do, and, quite frankly,…
Ever since I was a little girl, my family was prone to last-minute planning and spontaneous getaways. Two working parents and a child with more extracurriculars than she could count (me) meant that vacation time was hard to come by at times, and planning ahead was mostly out of the…
The program in which I’m enrolled includes a guaranteed internship. A guaranteed internship probably sounds like a great opportunity to anyone, but a guaranteed internship abroad sounds even better. Not only do you gain the experience of the internship, but you also get to be truly immersed in the country…
It’s November, and the sun is still as bright and shining as ever—and that, my friends, is the one of the perks of studying abroad in Los Angeles. To those who plan to visit the west coast this month, and to my fellow Boston University LA students, here are some…
It’s funny. Despite all the hullabaloo surrounding Boston University’s strong alumni network (and the success of graduates across many fields), I’d never really believed it. I mean, I knew it on paper. I knew about Martin Luther King Jr. and Jason Alexander. I knew the University has been around for…
