Vida porteña Never disappointed The last thing I ever expected was to actually manage to leave for Buenos Aires with the Erasmus Programme. I won’t tell you how absurd the sequence of events that led me to the other side of the world has been, but the ones next to me that saw it know …
Lockdown. A rip-off? A lockdown-proof erasmus Lausanne, Switzerland. Perhaps the closest destination to Milan, certainly in the top 3. In Switzerland, among of all these rigid people. Why would anyone want to go? My choice was mainly made from academic reasons: the EPFL in Lausanne is extremely interesting for us architects, but I am discovering …
On top down under Crossing the world to learn to ask Australia is an incredible country: kangaroos, koalas, huge and desolate lands, and then the ocean, the surfers,… you need a few months holiday to only get a little bit of the vastity and variety of wonders over there. I spent six months in Australia …
Making coffee in Japan Scattered notes of an unexpected cohabitation Yes, the practical field is one of overseas strengths. Yes, our strength is theory. No, this gap is not something unbridgeable, on the contrary it is easily retrieved. And yes, overseas they have amazing facilities and economical resources that we can only dream about. Alright, …
Quarantine in Austria 3 months of isolation together with friends (via web) Since November 2019 I have been in Villach to work on my degree thesis while working in Infineon, a semiconductor company. When COVID-19 epidemic broke out, I had only been back in Austria for a few weeks after staying in Milan for an …
From Finland to quarantine, what’s left How does a six months ago Erasmus help me today in staying home? I am Gabriele, I’m attending the second year of Master in Management Engineering and I was on an Erasmus the first semester of this year in Jyvaskyla, a town in Finland about three hours north of …
Dreamin’ Santiago When reality prevails and you have to say “goodbye” to your Erasmus program In September, a few days before my Bachelor graduation, I received the great news: I had been chosen for the Erasmus exchange, with the last ranking list. Destination: Santiago, Chile. After the initial surprise I immediately started getting on with …
Georgia on my mind Not just a thesis – A friendship at 7000 km from home The 6 months spent in the United States, writing the thesis at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, have probably been the most intense six months of my life. Never having been to the USA, and always having …
