Today started early with breakfast at our hotel, then we headed out for a day of company visits. Our first company visit and tour was of Arcus Novus, a satellite communications company. The bus ride was about 20 minutes but seemed odd when we started driving on dirt roads in a rural area. It was later explained that a rural location is better because there are no tall buildings and not many other obstacles that could potentially disrupt the signals given off by the satellite dishes. The tour was no too bad and kind of interesting seeing how it all works.
After our visit, we headed back towards town and took a lunch break that was finally relaxed and not rushed!! I went with the half of the group that had Italian while the other half of the group ventured off for Greek food.
After lunch, we headed to visit Fermentas, a biotechnical company that develops, manufactures and distributes products to customers such as researchers and pharmaceutical companies, just to name a few. We all agreed the presentation was quite interesting and incorporated various business components which related to us much more than a lot of scientific information.
After our visit, we chilled for a few hours then headed to dinner, which is highly regretted amongst the group and still remains a sore subject. To tell the story nutshell, waiting 2 hours (no exaggeration!!) for Chinese food makes 13 starving college students a bit upset. Despite the traumatic experience, we managed to stop by the grocery store on the way back to the hotel to get some good snacks to compensate for the tragic dinner!
- Kristen and Matt
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