Mike had traded stocks as a Stanford undergraduate and Ryan completed finance internships during his summers at Harvard.
Accounting or finance internships give you real world experience and help you to network, a skill necessary when seeking any business position.
To this end, Verizon has given the college $50,000 for a peer mentoring program and financed internships for students interested in early childhood education.
The Robert M. Takasugi Public Interest Fellowship, created in his honor in 1999, financed internships for students at organizations including the Asian Law Caucus and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
I took two other jobs to help finance this internship.
The founder of Crystal Bridges, the Wal-Mart heiress Alice L. Walton, also pledged $1 million to renovate and maintain the Fisk gallery that houses the collection and to finance an art internship.
It didn't help that Ms. Sandberg, whose net worth exceeds $1 billion, just sold $91 million of Facebook stock, apparently giving her plenty of cash to finance dozens of internships if she chose.
An economics major, Mr. Fisseha says he always assumed he would go into finance, and his summer internship last year was at the investment bank Morgan Stanley.
Indeed, the choice of a summer internship in finance is important because more than half of internships turn into offers of full-time work for students after they graduate, according to Rosalind Hoffa, the director of the career center at Amherst College.
Why is it that our community cares so much about the aimless humanist who got roped into an information session and a spiel about the "thrill of the deal?" We seem mostly accepting of the finance geek whose summer internship inspired a real passion for markets.
