GMI Student Blogs

Welcome to my second blog post! This will be on the needs finding workshop that we conducted over the past 3 days with Dr. Casey Howard and my group, Group 4. To begin, we all got divided into different groups of 4-5 students, and each group contained one...

Hi everyone! We are all safe and sound here in San José, Costa Rica and have enjoyed a few days of getting settled in the city. We've had some long travel days, but have also explored our hostel and neighborhood and even ventured out of San José for an afternoon. On...

This weekend we organized a trip to Hacienda Alsacia to check out the Starbucks coffee tour. It was exciting to see everyone from the summer program finally together since I wasn't staying with the group at the hostel. As a Costa Rican (Tico) it was exciting for me to...

Hola from Costa Rica - we've finally made it! The past few days have been pretty eventful, between flying in, exploring San Jose, and getting settled in our hostel. Our first day was pretty much just a travel day. I had a 7am flight with Sarah from Chicago to...

So where to begin? Started my journey to Costa Rica early, waking up at 5:30 am to catch a 7:52 am flight after two hours of sleep because I decided to start packing at 1 am. Don't know why I decided that was a good idea, but it happened, and I suffered the...

I can't lie when I say I was worried about spending my summer in Costa Rica. What's life going to be like? Will I get along with the other GMI students? After hopping on my connecting flight from Atlanta to Costa Rica, I was relieved to see a familiar face - it was...

Hi! I have had such a fun start to our Summer - I landed in San Jose around 1:00 pm on Friday (luggage lost in Miami - yay) and was able to get past the hoards of available taxi drivers in the airport to be able to take my (illegal) Uber safely to Selina. The first...

These have been my first three days with the GMI program in Costa Rica. It has been exciting to meet the people I am going to be working with for the rest of the year. My first day getting an Uber was a little bit of a struggle as I didn’t know where to find the Uber...

I arrived in Costa Rica at San Jose International Airport and was greeted by many friendly Ticos (native Costa Ricans) asking for me to ride in their taxi. As we drove back from the airport to Selina, our coworking hostel for this trip, I had an opportunity to look...