“Gnocci, gelato and nutella--I feel like I have not lived the first 20+ years of my life!!” Reynolds, a Junior in Management and Economics and a member of the Epsilon Delta Sigma Management Honor Society, is studying for a semester at Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy. Lally has been exchanging students with Bocconi University regularly since 1996, and three Lally students are studying there in spring 2010. Sam is blogging about his stay in Italy at: http://www.samreynoldsinmilan.blogspot.com.
Sam was selected to participate due to his outstanding academic achievement at Rensselaer, and is taking courses that will transfer as Strategy & Policy, Marketing Research, International Relations and an additional elective that could be applied to a marketing concentration. Although campus housing is available, most students going to Bocconi choose to rent apartments off campus with other students.
Highlights from Sam’s Reports:
Friends from Around the World: “ My friends range from US cities such as San Francisco, to Chicago, to Boston, to Worldwide Cities and Countries like Australia, Dubai, Portugal, Norway, Puerto Rico, Chile, and more. The universities they arrive from are Berkeley, Cornell, Sydney University in Australia, Babson, UIllinois at Champaign, University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Maryland, and other countries that I couldn't spell in a million years. It is a great group of kids who are in the same boat as me.”
Getting Oriented: “We went to the Bocconi Campus to make sure we could find our classrooms for when classes start. We checked in at the International Student Desk, received our IDs and packets of information. We asked a "ResLife" student for a tour and even though the campus is concealed within 3 blocks, it is beautiful and big enough. The library seems to be nice which I didn't enter because I won't be in there much ha.” 
La Dolce Vita: “There is the smell of pizza everywhere, it’s honestly like an imitation of Heaven.”
“All of the buildings are unattractive on the outside but are BEAUTIFUL inside. The buildings mostly all have 100% marble floors and hallways. The coolest part is that most of the buildings are connected by an underground hallway/tunnel. You can go from one building with classes to a cafeteria to a bank to another cafeteria to a library to a gym and to 2 more buildings without taking 1 step outside!! It is awesome and there is the smell of pizza everywhere, it’s honestly like an imitation of Heaven.”