Internship Series: Mission of Honduras to the United Nations
Fabiola Portal Dorado CAS'16 | International Relations Human Rights Representative, Permanent Mission of Honduras to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? Fabiola: I worked primarily with human rights issues during the 28th and 29th Sessions of the Human Rights Council, the 22nd Cycle ...
Internship Series: Systems & Technology Research
Benjamin Lawson CAS’17 | Computer Science Video and Image Understanding Group Intern CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? Benjamin: I was responsible for creating an app that utilized the face recognition capabilities that the group is developing. I adapted the current paradigm of a static database of images to a streaming real-time ...
Internship Series: VISION Marketing & Consulting
Brooke Kwasny COM’16 | Public Relations Social Media Intern CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? Brooke: My main responsibility was to manage the online presence of my company. I did everything from managing our company Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ accounts to writing blogs for our website. CCD: How did you find ...
Career Options for English Majors
A few months before receiving my Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Boston University, many of my closest friends and family began to ask me what I was planning to do with my degree. I’d like to tell you that I had been intently thinking about what I’d do after graduation, but in all ...
Internship Series: Accenture
Elettra Fucelli CAS’16 | Computer Science Technology Consulting Analyst Intern CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? Elettra: As Accenture is a technology consulting company, most of their people work with clients on various projects. I spent my summer working with one of their top clients, a leader in big data and cloud ...
Internship Series: Boston University Humphrey Fellowship Program
Pengying Wang CAS’18 | International Relations Intern CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? Pengying: During this internship, I completed some administrative office work, organized and edited the fellows’ profiles, worked on the program booklets, wrote proposals with other corporations, answered the phone calls and replied to emails. My responsibilities strengthened the communication ...
Being a Leader on Campus
As the Student Outreach Coordinator for Boston University’s Center for Career Development and Educational Resource Center, I have the privilege to work with an amazing group of student leaders through our Student Ambassador Program. These students were selected from a competitive group of applicants because of their leadership potential. They are all active members of the BU community; ...
Internship Series: Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture
Guanying Qu CAS’18 | Math and Economics Intern CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? Guanying: I conducted data analysis of surveys that measure the effectiveness of education initiatives for children on field trips, measuring pre-visit and post-visit differences in their knowledge of healthy food choices. This project required me to create infographics ...
Internship Series: Suh Lab, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Katherine Sennott CAS’16 | Biology Intern/Researcher CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? Katherine: I was in charge of a research project about apolipoproteins, which are proteins that move cholesterol and other lipids around in your body. This project was based on research that other scientists have published, and was used to highlight ...
Internship Series: Mercer Consulting
Saurabh Mahajan CAS’16 | Economics Actuarial Consulting Intern CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? Saurabh: Mercer is a global consulting firm that focuses on risk and talent consulting. I was an actuarial intern in the retirement consulting department, so I worked with our consultants to help clients manage/forecast/de-risk their pension liabilities. Since ...
BU + Beyond 