Career Services

Yesterday I had my senior meeting with the career services office. Each senior is required to attend a one hour seminar with some of career service professionals to talk about what our plans are after graduation. Some students come in full of confidence, eager to discuss their options for employment or graduate school. Others remain unsure about what to do.

Applying for an internship or competitive summer job is like steamrolling your life into short sentences, tattooing those to cover letters, resumes, essays and writing samples, shrink-wrapping it all into an email and waiting, hung from your toes, until someone catches you with a fish hook.  Short answer: internship applications are confusing.  And painful.

I’m learning in Sustainability class not to value money. Money is outdated, our readings explain; it fosters a dependence on something of no concrete value while ignoring the immense value of a shade-providing tree or a network of life-giving streams. I buy into this, having almost worshipped the regal maple outside my window growing up. But sometimes money is pretty darn useful, especially when I plan to use it through an Innovation Grant to better my St. Lawrence community.

While I’m right here on campus for my internship this summer, hundreds of my fellow Saints are employed or volunteering in all corners of the country and world right now. Part of my work for Admissions includes updating a newsletter for one of our counselors, and for this I’ve found and interviewed five students whose summer activities are especially exciting or meaningful. Not all these students found their summer work through St. Lawrence, but all credit their academic and life education here for preparing them to enter the real-world workforce. If only for a summer just now.

  Hi! My name is Estella and this my first blog post on this site. I'm really excited to contribute my experiences at St. Lawrence! It's tough narrowing down what to write about but I thought I'd start off with this past weekend. A friend of mine who graduated last December came back to visit, so we tried to cram in as much fun as possible while she was here.