A lot of little kids dream of being an astronaut when they grow up, but what does it really mean to spend your summer working for NASA. Two-time NASA intern (and co-host of Get This Girl a Job), Katie Melbourne shares her experience doing research at NASA Goddard and how she sees astronomy research fitting into her dream of a career in science policy. Name: Katie Melbourne Job Title: Astrophysics Research Intern at NASA Goddard Location: Greenbelt, Maryland College: Yale University Year: 2.5 Major: Astrophysics What are you doing this summer? I am working on extending and improving previous analysis completed for Measurements of the Ultraviolet Spectral Characteristics of Low-mass…
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How Getting a Job at a Chicago Venture Capital Firm Made Her an Advocate for Women in Finance and Tech
When more than 20% of the graduating classes of elite colleges are taking jobs in financial services after graduating, it’s impossible to ignore the women on the front lines! Welcome to finance week in Internship Diaries! Erin Martinez used the resources at her school to find a job in Chicago at a venture capital firm! She shares how her degree in finance has helped her in recruiting, her newfound love of the intersection of finance and technology, and how she hopes to be an advocate for women in this field. Name: Erin Martinez Job Title: Summer Associate at Origin Ventures Location: Chicago, IL College: University of Notre Dame Year: Rising…
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Working at an Investment Bank in Texas as an International Woman
When more than 20% of the graduating classes of elite colleges are taking jobs in financial services after graduating, it’s impossible to ignore the women on the front lines! Welcome to finance week in Internship Diaries! Jenny Lim shares her experience working for an investment bank and experiencing life in Houston! She manages long hours learning about the energy sector with office happy hours and her own exercise regimen. Name: Jenny Lim Job Title: Investment Banking Summer Analyst, Tudor Pickering Holt Location: Houston, TX College: University of Chicago Year: Rising 4th Major: Economics What are you doing this summer? Working at an energy focused boutique investment bank! We advise energy…
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How Working in Government Communications Opened Her Eyes to the Texas Legal System
When you have a clear vision for your future, how can taking a position tangential to it change the way you approach your future path? Laura McCutcheon’s internship at the Press Office of the Governor of Texas has taught her how the public face of the government can affect the individual organizations under it. She shares how she made the most of her university’s resources to combine her academic work in Communications with her goal of going to law school. Name: Laura McCutcheon Job Title: Press Office Intern at the Office of the Texas Governor, Greg Abbott Location: Austin, Texas College: University of Texas at Austin Year: Rising Third Year…
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Finding Work-Life Balance in New York City
Summer is traditionally a time for relaxing, but when you’re working more than 40 hours a week and your work can follow you home, how do you find time to balance it with exercise and social time? Arushi Saksena shares her tips for getting everything to fit in her day as a research assistant at Columbia University and dealing with applications with rolling admissions. She learned that she really can make her work fit into her life and how valuable all the knowledge she picked up over the last few years is in the present. Name: Arushi Saksena Job Title: Summer Research Intern, Columbia University Location: New York, NY College:…
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How Working with a Playwright Inspired this Musical Theater Major
What does it mean for your summer internships to pursue a career in performing arts? Olivia Hytha shares how, with the support of one of her professors, she stepped into the life of a playwright producing a new work. She learned how to balance relationships with the creative team and was inspired when seeing how a style of writing different from her own translated to the stage. Name: Olivia Hytha Job Title: Playwright’s Assistant Location: Boston, MA College: Boston Conservatory Year: Senior Major: Musical Theater What are you doing this summer? I’m assisting a Playwright putting up a new work. View this post on Instagram Meditations 1 @ MASS (thank…
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How Working at Madewell Changed Her Perspective on Becoming a Therapist
When you balance a part-time job during the school year, every summer you have to make a decision as to whether you want to keep working there. This decision is even harder when your part-time job isn’t related to your career, especially when you love your job. Jillian Jackson shares how she found her perfect job at Madewell, why she keeps coming back every summer, and the best style secret she’s learned from the last two years! Name: Jillian Jackson Job Title: Sales Associate at Madewell Location: Jacksonville, FL College: Vanderbilt University Year: Rising Senior Major: Psychology What are you doing this summer? This is the third summer I’ll be…
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How Restructuring Her Internship Search Helped this Psychology Major Get Hands On Clinical Experience
When every job in your chosen field requires grad school, how do you find a summer internship? Sarah McDonnell knew she wanted to use her Psychology degree, but hands-on clinical work without an advanced degree is really difficult to find. After applying to jobs in other fields that could tangentially apply her degree, she restructured her job search, figured out what she was (and wasn’t!) willing to compromise on, and eventually found herself a summer internship, near home, working with patients. Name: Sarah McDonnell Job Title: Adult Day Program Instructor Intern at Gatepath Location: Burlingame, California College: Wake Forest University Year in School: Rising Senior Major: Psychology What are you…
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You might see some changes around here over the next couple weeks. Here’s a sneak peak of what you can expect and your chance to tell me what you’d like to see here. With the school year ending in a couple weeks, and my end of year review under way (you know how I like my end of year reviews), I realized that Xoxo, Rosana is very different than the blog I started in 2016. In addition to chronicling my own experimentations in adulthood, over the last 6 months, the amazing women in my life have stepped up to share their own experiences. The first season of our podcast, Get…
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Being a Good Mentee | Ask GTGAJ Ep. 4
The fourth episode of Ask Get This Girl a Job is here! Katie and Rosana answer your questions about using your minor in the job search, how to be a good mentee, and what to do if you haven’t heard back from a job you applied for. Get This Girl a Job is a podcast that tries to demystify the job search by sharing the stories of recent college graduates as they made their way into the workforce for the first time! Ask GTGAJ is a special episode, that Katie and I co-host, where we try to answer your questions about your own job search. You can read more about…
