Seniors spend their final year working with real companies as clients.
Now in her second and final year working for the College Advising Corps CACC) at Duke, she counsels students at a rural high school, nudging them toward schools that fit their strengths, encouraging them to branch out, assuring them they can do it.
Fashion majors at Parsons usually spend their final year working on a collection and lookbook that they present to a panel of industry judges before graduation.
But while Brando bloated away his beauty, lost his genius in indulgence and self-loathing, withered away his final years working on a pirate novel and living in the South Pacific, Newman's playing against type was matched by strictly enforced modesty.
It is that time of year when many final-year social work students make the transition to qualified practitioner and take their first steps on the social work career ladder.
It wasn't until her final-year project, working on the parental imprinting of the insulin-like growth factor II gene in rats, that she finally started doing real research, but this early contribution earned her first publication, as second author in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
"I've become much more efficient at looking through large volumes of material and finding relevant information quickly, while ensuring I'm being thorough and picking up on small details," says Eleanor Rae, 21, a final-year law student working on Gary's case.
For her final-year project, she worked on the physiology of Debaryomyces hansenii, a salt-tolerant yeast used to ripen cheeses.
During his final-year project, he started working on software that would extract information from various databases on the internet and distribute it across a network of computers via an easy-to-use interface.
Contestants, who must be business-school students or university students in their final two years, work in teams of three to create virtual cosmetic companies.
