Internship

When you are applying for summer internships, it is important to use every resource you have at your disposal. LinkedIn and Handshake are great tools to use to make connections, find new networking events, and potentially secure internships. However, you may not know how to make the most of each platform. Check out our guide to using LinkedIn and Handshake effectively!

Interviews are undoubtedly an essential part of any application process, and with summer right around the corner, many students are looking for opportunities to work or intern in the city. While bringing up attendance at Columbia or Barnard might be a given in an interview, what exactly sets a student here apart from others at similarly distinguished institutions? What about Columbia is unique to making better future employees? Below are some pointers to help convey exactly that to those interviewers.

If you’ve ever applied for an internship, you know how long and frustrating the application process can be. After countless resume workshops, networking sessions, and practice interviews, getting rejected from an internship you spent months preparing for can be quite devastating.

Fifteen coffee chats, 85 cold calls, and 10 on-campus networking events led to a fateful moment for George Astor, a sophomore studying financial economics at Columbia College.

As you progress through the first half of this fall semester, you may have a certain thought lingering at the back of your mind: How can I obtain an internship for the summer? This is something that many students probably worry about, but most don’t know that the Center for Career Education offers internship programs!

Do you need to update your résumé? Practice for your upcoming interviews? Want to know all the different resources for getting an internship? Look no further than Beyond Barnard. Although it’s fairly new, the Beyond Barnard Initiative is an amazing resource for students’ professional needs.

It’s early June, and the clocks are striking 13. These past two weeks have been blissful, dusky, and honey-soaked. Saccharine, whatever that means. And I reckon I’ve got about three more days before the panic truly sets in. You see, I don’t have gainful employment lined up for this summer. Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Whether you’re looking to explore different fields, make some extra cash, or build a relevant skill set for your future career, you’ve probably thought about getting an internship. However, internships don’t fall from the sky, and despite how much we talk about the internship search up here at MoHi, it’s normal to feel confused and overwhelmed by the internship search. But no need to worry: Spectrum has you covered with a step-by-step guide to the internship hunt.

The weather’s been getting warmer and the days longer, and we all know what that means—summer is just around the corner. Though it may not feel like it, we’re officially halfway through the spring semester, and therefore, it’s time to plan for summer. If that thought sends you into a tailspin, take a second to relax—from internships to jobs to relaxing itself, Spectrum’s got you covered with some options on what you should do this summer.

Last Saturday, I was crying in Butler as I spent five hours trying to fit a sigmoidal curve in Python to data points that indicated how much of the world’s fastest growing species of bacteria were killed by specific concentrations of antibiotic. I was crying because I’m an emotional mess all the time. But I was trying to fit a sigmoidal curve to data about bacterial death for reasons that are slightly more complicated.