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Rome, Spring 2009
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Welcome to Working in Italy
Author: Nina Bova Placement: Roma Tre Master’s of Peacekeeping _____ Welcome to Roma3, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche. Welcome to Italian youths in leather jackets, scarves and turtlenecks in the month of May. Welcome to a million cigarette butts scattered throughout the one-block campus, indicating the cloud of smoke that hovers just above your head but [...]
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Finding Your Roman Internship
Author: Heather Karschner Placement: Istituto Affari Internazionali (Institute of International Affairs) _____ Before I came to Rome to study abroad with IES this semester, I thought a Roman internship sounded great. But I was worried – swamped with fall semester work and all sorts of study abroad paperwork, would I have time to find a [...]
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What I’ve Learned
Author: Sophia Finfer Placement: Galleria André (André Gallery) _____ This semester I interned at Galleria André, a contemporary art gallery on Via Giulia. The location is great – Via Giulia is a 500-year-old street with lots of interesting things. I feel like I notice something new every time I walk down it. While the gallery [...]
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The Time Difference
Author: Matthew Pezzicara Placement: A museum in Rome _____ The first thing I noticed upon arriving at my internship (which unfortunately seems over a year ago) was that time, either how long people work or when they arrive and leave work, is not as strict or regulated in Italy as it is in America. I [...]
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My Walk to Work
Author: Galen Bernard Placement: Istituto Affari Internazionali (Institute of International Affairs) _____ The most difficult part of my internship, but perhaps also the part from which I got the most experience of Italian culture, both what I did and did not like of it, was my daily sojourn all the way up Via del Corso [...]
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Stumbling upon an Internship
Author: Mike Disabito Placement: Italian Academy Foundation _____ My internship was somehow carefully placed upon my lap. I went into Silvia’s office (the internship coordinator) with a preformed idea that I would be teaching a random Italian high school or middle school class. However, after meeting the owner of a school who emanated pure strangeness, [...]
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Cultural Differences
Author: Michael Boswell Placement: Casa delle Letterature (House of Literature) _____ Having studied Italian for seven years and grown up as a second generation Italian-American, I believed that there would be minimal change necessary for me to align myself with the Italian culture. I was mistaken. The Italian culture is very different from the American [...]
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Finding Your Own Direction
Author: Jeff Peters Placement: Ki-Shirts _____ My IES Rome internship was at Ki-Shirts, which is an organic cotton, yoga-infused clothing business. The business is owned by one woman who devotes herself to all the aspects of the business. I quickly learned how hard it is to operate a sole-proprietorship. Each day at my internship was [...]
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Not Your Typical Boss
Author: Courtney Schickling Placement: Santa Susanna Parish _____ This past semester I interned at the Santa Susanna Parish, also known as The American Church of Rome. I co-interned with a fellow classmate of mine through the IES program, Gregg Bittner. At Santa Susanna, I held the role of assistant treasurer. My duties and tasks consisted [...]
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Returning to Rome
Author: Elizabeth Peckham Placement: Casa della Memoria e della Storia (Memory and History House) _____ In spring 2007, I came to IES as a study abroad student. I interned with IAI, a prestigious think-tank in Rome, an experience which helped me make the decision to pursue an academic career. When I came back to Rome [...]
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Challenging Yourself
Author: Stephanie Cuomo Placement: United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute _____ When I was first offered my internship at the UNICRI branch of the United Nations, I was hesitant to take it. Not only was I extremely intimidated about working for such a large and important organization, I was also terrified to have [...]
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My Work Plan
Author: Andrea Borgen Placement: Delicious Italy _____ At the beginning of the semester, I decided to work at Delicious Italy, a business which publishes an online travel guide to Italy, specifically made for English speakers. Originally, I had been looking to work at a larger company, the kind where I would have several co-workers and [...]
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The Italian Lunch Break
Author: Caitlin Gillies Placement: Progetto Sud _____ This past summer, I worked at an arts institute based in Manhattan. I joined the staff in the midst of preparation for a major opera production, and so the environment was one fraught with Upper East Side tension. As an intern, I had a considerable amount of menial [...]
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A Very Roman Internship with Two Americans
Author: Natalie Rogers Placement: As the Romans Do _____ My internship was with an American couple who own a private cultural, historical and culinary tour business here in Rome. My boss, Diane, is also a professional photographer who specializes in a very unique style, in which she creates impressionistic images of sites throughout Rome. Although [...]
