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Thursday, January 30, 2014
JAYHAWKS ABROAD
INTERNING ABROAD
Students gain international experience during their summer internships
SALLY CARMICHAEL
London
Graphic design senior Sally Carmichael lived in London last summer and interned at Heavenly, a branding agency in central London.
"Internship abroad is a really awesome alternative," said Carmichael, an Overland Park native. "I have no idea where I'll end up working after I graduate, but having that I worked at Heavenly in London on my resume opens the door for more international prospects. Having experience working in a large city is really helpful, too."
At Heavenly, Carmichael worked on real client projects, including the rebranding of Fulham Football Club, one of the oldest football clubs in England, Globe Telecom, based out of the Philippines, and a nonprofit organization supporting African children with AIDs.
"I was apprehensive about studying somewhere for a semester because my program here at KU for graphic design is really strict about staying on schedule to graduate," Carmichael said. "It was perfect to be gone for the whole summer."
Besides interning at Heavenly Monday through Thursday, Carmichael fit in plenty of traveling within the United Kingdom. Part of the London internship experience is taking HIST 450, a three-credit course about the city
"Our classes were held at different locations around London," Carmichael said. "There was so much I wouldn't have seen otherwise. They took us everywhere, including Greenwich and the Prime Meridian."
Carmichael advises students who choose to intern abroad for the summer to not travel outside of the country they live in.
"You have the opportunity to be a regular person, living and working in the city," Carmichael said. "Really explore the city you live in. I got to do and see a lot of things that other people didn't see because they were traveling."
JANALYN GILES
Dublin
While working toward her master's degree in accounting, Janalyn Giles spent a summer interning at an accounting firm in Dublin, Ireland, called OSK.
A native of Shawnee, Kan., Giles said she did what any accounting intern would be doing, except in Ireland: verifying facts from audits performed and various clerical tasks. She enjoyed working with people from another country.
"When you're a tourist, there's a slight amount of separation," Giles said. "It was nice to really get to meet people, learn the routine, and get a different perspective of the country."
During her accounting internship at OSK. Giles lived in student apartments outside of the Dublin city center with three other students. She called her internship abroad overall a "wonderful experience."
"It gives you a chance to really open yourself up to the experience without the same pressure as [being at home]." Giles said. "When you get an internship here, you're so worried about the internship leading to a full-time offer. I think there's a lot more fear and reservation involved.
"But when you're going somewhere else, you step away from all of that and just learn what they have to teach you,and really experience it without so much pressure on you."
One of her favorite experiences was visiting a local pub to eat a traditional Irish meal and watch traditional Celtic dancers. After the internship, Giles said she is interested in working internationally after graduation.
"I want to go into public accounting, so a lot of the larger firms specifically have international rotations," Giles said. "It's something that's really interested me." Giles will earn her undergraduate degree this December and graduate with her master's degree in accounting May 2016.
DAN WOODWARD
Sydney
Dan Woodward, a senior from Overland Park majoring in psychology, interned at the Mental Health Association of New South Wales last summer. The nonprofit organization supports those living with mental illnesses and strives to increase community awareness.
Woodward worked last summer answering phones for the Mental Health Association NSW's referral service. He helped callers with questions and concerns find support groups, counselors, and other psychological services close to where they lived.
"I would guide people in the right direction of who to call and where to go next," Woodward said. "I was kind of the middleman for helping people solve their concerns."
Having recently applied to several graduate schools, Woodward hopes to earn a master's or doctorate degree in psychology. As a career he would like to work with students, parents and teachers, doing assessment testing and tackling bullying and peer relationships.
Woodward lived in Sydney with four roommates, three of them from KU.
"We had a lot of personal time [at the office]." Woodward said. "During the day, they'd ring a bell and have a coffee break where everyone would sit in a circle and drink coffee or tea and talk about work. They were big on our own wellness promotion."
On the weekends, Woodward explored Sydney, surfed, and traveled to New Zealand.
"I had a really good experience," Woodward said. "I made friends with the other KU students that went and we still keep in touch. It was cool to make lifelong friends. I still talk to people from my internship, too."
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KATHLEEN MCKENZIE Madrid
On her internship abroad last summer, Kathleen McKenzie had the best of both worlds.
Madrid
As a pre-med senior majoring in Spanish, McKenzie, of Eureka, Kan., put her language skills to work every day as she intermed at the Hospital of Madrid last summer. McKenzie shadowed two doctors and was later able to work with patients one on one.
"The best part was the amount of experience I got for that short amount of time," McKenzie said. "I don't think if I did an internship in the U.S. that I would get to see all that I saw. I probably wouldn't be able to get as involved."
After shadowing for a while, McKenzie could enter a patient's room first to check the patient's vitals, do a simple physical examination and talk with the patient about why they came before the actual doctor entered. The doctor would then tell her what she did right and wrong.
"None of these people spoke English, so it was either figure out how to talk with them or not be able to communicate. It really made me improve my Spanish."
Halfway through her internship, McKenzie rotated doctors and observed the head of the internal medicine department at the Hospital of Madrid. Again, she observed the doctor and did simple physical examinations such as listening to the heartbeat, checking breathing and taking blood pressure.
McKenzie enjoyed living with a host mother in an inner city Madrid apartment and traveled most weekends around Spain, as well as to London, Vienna and Rome.
"At the end of my internship, both of the doctors that I shadowed wrote me recommendation letters for when I apply to medical school," McKenzie said. "Interning abroad is an opportunity worth every cent you pay."
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gets bigger."
Bitcoin acts as a form of payment on the Internet, with buyers and sellers transferring
currency is finding itself in the limelight this week, thanks to controversy surrounding Charlie Shrem, the CEO of BitInstant, a popular bitcoin exchange website. Shrem faces accusations that he knowingly used the company to convert cash to bitcoin to be used on Silk Road, a blackmarket website shut down last year that is primarily used to purchase drugs. With attention like this across the media and the Internet, questions and concerns continue to pop up regarding this new, mysterious technology.
A new form of digital currency known as bitcoin has recently come into prominence. Only 21 million bitcoin exist, and 12 million are currently in circulation.
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professor Shu Wu said it's not a surprising development in the way we pay for things.
"Different forms of money and payment have been used historically," Wu said. "First it was stones, precious metals or even chocolate as money, so as technology progresses you start to see these different forms take shape."
Many of the comparisons made for bitcoin are not to
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"People think of Bitcoin as a currency, but it's really more of a speculative commodity. It is sometimes easier for people to work with it when you think about it like this," said Walt Ohnesorge, a board member
cash but to gold, which is a precious, finite commodity, unlike money.
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There is a finite amount of bitcoin in the world, 21 million to be exact, and 12 million are currently in circulation. In order for a bitcoin to come
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