Travel is a wonderful thing. It is exciting. It is interesting. It is certainly fun. The opportunity to tour the world with a group of motivated classmates is a unique experience that teaches you far more than can be gleaned from leisure trips though, and it is rare. During my […]
More than 60 Shanghai-based alumni came together at the city’s Grand Swissotel on Jan. 9 to celebrate the launch of the Tulane Association of Business Alumni’s newest chapter. The Shanghai Chapter of TABA is the Freeman School’s first new international alumni association chapter in 20 years, and its establishment is […]
Shanghai was a city I was largely unfamiliar with. It was a place I had never seen in person and my understanding of it had come largely from movies and television. Conversely, the people of Shanghai were largely unfamiliar with me. I, being a black male with dreadlocks, was something […]
The Chinese landscape is constantly switching between magnificent skyscrapers and streets crowded with run-down apartment buildings. I think it’s fascinating that in the same city mere blocks from one another are buildings that light up the night sky with their fluorescent glow and quite neighborhoods with so many drying racks hanging out […]
Before beginning graduate school, I did not own a passport. My previous international travels were restricted to North America back in times when a birth certificate was sufficient. Traveling to China was both new and interesting for me. While some places felt like I had not left America, others were […]
This China trip was a once in a lifetime opportunity. This trip alone has opened up my eyes to a whole new part of the world. Before coming to China, I never really considered traveling to this part of the country. After spending a week there, I would most definitely […]
Hi again everyone! My name is Grant Paranjape and this blog will talk about my recent experience in China as part of the master of management cultural immersion trip. Simply put, from the moment you get to the airport for your departure flight, everything is an adventure. Finding out what […]