A&S Student Career Ambassadors: Right There With You

Here's a secret: I work at the Arts & Sciences Career Services Office, and I have no idea what I want to do with my life.

I spend my days helping other students find their career paths by critiquing resumes and scheduling appointments with career advisors, but my own path is not clear to me. Law, nonprofit work, editing, photography--they all sound great. So how to decide?

As a history major, I get nerdily excited about scrounging around for information. So my Step 1 is finding all the summer opportunities and future options that I can.

Today I flipped through a binder of fellowship listings in the A&S Career Library and discovered how many opportunities (and how much funding) are out there waiting for students to claim them.

Who knew about the American Bar Foundation Summer Research Diversity Fellows program in Chicago (http://americanbarfoundation.org/research/Fellowshipopportunities/SummerResearchDiversityFellowshipsinLawandSocialScience.html), which offers the opportunity to learn more about social science research over ten weeks? It may have an unwieldy title, but the program does provide housing and a $3,600 stipend.

Or what about getting funding for an unpaid or underpaid summer service internship through the J.W. Saxe Memorial Prize (http://www.jwsaxefund.org/)?

Or one to three month "Studentships" at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy? Sure, you have to be over 20 and speak fluent Italian--which I'm not and I don't--but this one was too exciting not to mention.

The Career Library is full of finds like this, but most people don't know it exists. Come on over to Goldwin Smith G55 (our lovely basement office) anytime between 8 am and 4:30 pm on weekdays--even during fall break!--and take a look. I guarantee you'll be pleasantly surprised.

~Liz
A&S Student Career Ambassador