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Your Grad School Personal Statement: Part 3
Editor's Note: This is part three of a four-part series. In my previous posts, I suggested that you structure your essay around a theme not a timeline, and make the theme your core drive or drives that explain specifically your experience and goals. A key word here is core. It’s not enough to say that you want ...
Advice from the Other Side: Procrastination
It’s time to talk about the elephant in the room that often keeps you from tackling tasks efficiently: procrastination.
Internship Series: Department of State
Aelish Benjamin-Brown CAS/Pardee’18 | International Relations State Department Internship CCD: Tell us about your internship experience. What were your responsibilities? Aelish: I found the opportunity via my academic department and the Center for Career Development. I went to walk-in hours for cover letter help and followed up with a career advisor multiple times to perfect my ...
Your Grad School Personal Statement: Part 2
Editor's Note: This is part two of a four-part series. When explaining why you want to go to grad school, it’s natural to trace the relevant parts of your experience through time. Organized that way, the essay is chronological. As a place to start, this structure is good because it’s pretty easy to complete a first ...
Internship Series: L&A Social Media
Meghan Fantes CAS’18 | Mathematics & Statistics, Computer Science Social Media Content and Analysis Intern CCD: Tell us about your internship experience. What were your responsibilities? Meghan: During my first month I helped with photoshoots (and modeled in some of the photo shoots!), researched for posts, and sourced images for inspiration for future photoshoots. Slowly ...
Your Grad School Personal Statement: Part 1
Editor's Note: This is part one of a four-part series. Four things will make your grad school personal statement successful. The first is to focus on motivation, rather than trying to stand out. For your personal statement, many will advise you to be unique, to find a hook or angle in order to stand out ...
Internship Series: The Foreign Policy Initiative
Christina Lucas CAS’17/Pardee’17 | International Relations & Economics Policy Internship CCD: Tell us about your internship experience. What were your responsibilities? Christina: My overall job description was writing up policy memos, assisting in conference call briefings, presenting at weekly policy team meetings, and working on my long term research project. Every day I was responsible ...
Internship Series: O, The Oprah Magazine
Emma Johnson CGS/COM’19 | Communication Studies Style Intern CCD: Tell us about your internship experience. What were your responsibilities? Emma: I worked on the monthly O List as well as the annual Holiday Gift Guide. I opened, tested and called in home/food/tech/beauty/fashion products. I trafficked samples and set up all products, prices and descriptions for ...
Making the Most of a Challenging Internship Experience
Even with the best-laid plans, you may find yourself in a challenging internship. The reasons for this can vary – from being given tasks that are dull and routine to having a difficult supervisor. To try and help prevent this possibility even before you apply for an internship, be sure to do your research ...
Internship Series: Converse, Inc.
Anthony Tran ENG’16 | Mechanical Engineering Associate Engineer & BU Campus Ambassador CCD: Tell us about your internship experience. What were your responsibilities? Anthony: As an engineer, I worked under a senior footwear design engineer on the development team overseeing and working on the materials, costing, fit and manufacturing of Converse’s footwear. My own projects ...
BU + Beyond 