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What Kenneth Estrada learned while teaching abroad

How does an English major from New Jersey end up spending his summer in Tajikistan? For Kenneth Estrada ’17, a love of language led him to a gig teaching English as a foreign language, and an internship for the the Tajik Community Based Tourism Association in Tajikistan’s capital city of Dushanbe. A native of Perth Amboy,…

Engineering students spend their summer working on NASA Space Grant

While some people spent Fourth of July weekend taking in fireworks displays, overindulging on hot dogs, and trying to beat the heat, TCNJ biomedical engineering students helped to plan for NASA’s first manned-mission to Mars as part of the college’s Mentored Undergraduate Summer Experience (MUSE) program. Working under the tutelage of assistant professor of biomedical…

Ryan Laux and Chris Lundy learn on the job at Hollywood studio

Senior interactive multimedia (IMM) majors Ryan Laux and Chris Lundy made the most of their summer internship in Los Angeles, seizing, exploring, and absorbing whatever they could as videographer interns at DreamWorks Animation. Working for the training department, Laux and Lundy were responsible for filming, editing, and posting critical software classes for reference and teach-back purposes—invaluable…

How blogging helped Alyssa Freitas connect at IBM

Alyssa Freitas always wanted a career in sales. She trained for it in mock sales competitions and her courses as a management major. This summer, however, she wanted to match her passion for sales with her interest in technology, and a 10-week internship at IBM offered the perfect balance, placing her in the heart of…

Two summer internships lead Dale Oommen to surprise findings

Dale Oommen ’17 is a biology major with a passion for research and exploration. “You can’t really know what you want to do unless you’ve had hands-on time experiencing it,” he says, a philosophy he put into practice this summer with engagements at very different organizations. Oommen’s first commitment was shadowing doctors and volunteering as…

Tom Cilla’s front row seat to history-in-the-making

Tom Cilla’s fellow students may be hard-pressed to top his “What I Did On My Summer Vacation” essay. As an intern with the United States Solicitor General’s office in Washington, D.C., Cilla was witness to two landmark rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court. He heard Justice Stephen Breyer read the majority opinion in Whole Woman’s…

Symone Yancey’s journey to Columbia Law School

Symone Yancey ’16 scored offers of admission from seven of the nation’s top law schools, and then parlayed them into a full ride at Columbia University to study civil rights law. But how did the first college graduate from a working-class family in Somerdale, N.J., do it? Yancey, 22, is down-to-earth about her secret: Hard…

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