Internships
Real-World Experiences to Enhance Your Resume
Internships not only enrich your academic journey, but also allow you to immerse yourself in the day-to-day life of your field prior to entering the workforce. These short-term work experiences help you identify the careers and industries that best fit your distinctive talents and developing interests, while making you a more competitive applicant for the post-graduate job market. You can even submit an application to earn academic credit for your internship experience.
Finding and Securing Opportunities
You can intern during the academic year or during your winter or summer breaks. Our Center for Career and Professional Development will help you discover and land these positions, guiding you through the internship search, application, and interview processes, and facilitating connections with F&M alumni, parents and friends of the College for potential opportunities. Through F&M, you鈥檒l also have access to the True Blue Network, a career network platform exclusive to the F&M community. Here, you can connect with alumni and parents who have volunteered to support student F&M success beyond the classroom.
Student Spotlight
鈥淚 fell in love with helping others through dentistry.鈥�
Pre-dental student Lily Murphy 鈥�26 has always loved working with kids, but she wasn鈥檛
sure what that would look like in dentistry. She found her niche by gaining hands-on
experience in pediatric dentistry. 鈥淢ost children fear the dentist, so it鈥檚 important
to take the time to make sure they are calm and feel safe,鈥� she said. During her internship,
Murphy shadowed dentists while they performed procedures and helped dental assistants
prepare exam rooms and instruments. 鈥淚t has been such an amazing experience to understand
how a dental practice runs,鈥� she said. Murphy noted that F&M鈥檚 pre-dental program
also helped her land a volunteer opportunity with the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic.
鈥淔rom that opportunity, I fell in love with helping others through dentistry,鈥� she
said.
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An Internship in Paris: 鈥楴ight at the Museum鈥� Could Never Compare
Ruth Axford 鈥�25 never imagined that she would walk to the Arc de Triomphe to take
the metro, intern in the same building complex as the Louvre, or go to the Bastille
area for class. But she did all of that and more when she spent a semester studying
abroad in Paris. Axford interned at the Mus茅e des Arts D茅coratifs, a museum dedicated
to the exhibition and preservation of the decorative arts. The French and history
double major worked on an exhibit for Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. 鈥淕oing
through the finished product on opening night with my colleagues, seeing it all come
to life without Tyvek commercial wrap on the floor was crazy,鈥� Axford said. 鈥淲hen
we came out, the credits on the wall said all our names, including 鈥榓vec la collaboration
de Ruth Axford.鈥� I may have happily cried walking home along the Champs Elys茅es, amazed
at everything I accomplished in only four months.鈥�
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How Alumni and an F&M Course Connected Students With Government Internships
Thanks to an experiential learning course and numerous alumni connections in Pennsylvania鈥檚
capital city of Harrisburg, several F&M students gained hands-on experience in public
affairs. The F&M in Harrisburg Practicum included coursework on Pennsylvania鈥檚 government
and matched students with internship opportunities to provide a deeper understanding
of government bureaucracy. 鈥淚t鈥檚 one thing to understand the academic perspective
and the theories about how the government is supposed to operate, and it鈥檚 another
to see it firsthand,鈥� said Stephen Medvic, F&M Honorable and Mrs. John C. Kunkel Professor
of Government. Medvic noted that F&M alumni in Harrisburg helped identify many of
the internship opportunities with which students were matched. 鈥淚n almost all cases,
we had F&M connections,鈥� he said.
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Summer Experience Funds
Your advisers can also direct you to generous donor funding that can help offset the financial burden of an unpaid or underpaid summer experience. These funds empower you to seek a wide variety of opportunities, giving you flexibility to choose internships that typically are unpaid or minimally paid.
See How Diplomats Are Exploring Their Passions
August 30, 2024
鈥業 Fell in Love With Helping Others Through Dentistry鈥�
Pre-dental student Lily Murphy 鈥�26 has always loved working with kids, but she wasn鈥檛 sure what that would look like in dentistry. This summer, she found her niche by gaining hands-on experience in pediatric dentistry. 鈥淢ost children fear the dentist, so it鈥檚 important to take the time to make sure they are calm and feel safe,鈥� she said.
May 29, 2024
Student Startup Promotes Responsible AI Use
A recent F&M graduate and a current student hope to harness the power of artificial intelligence to help students learn.
April 29, 2024
F&M in Harrisburg Offers Firsthand Look at Careers in Government
F&M students gained hands-on experience in public affairs through the F&M in Harrisburg Practicum, which matched students with internship opportunities.