Fall 2024 Issue of the Washington College Magazine
Find a copy on campus or read stories online now. In addition to a feature on GE Aerospace
CEO H. Lawrence Culp Jr. '85, you'll find an online-only offering: a video interview
with electric boat team members about their world record.
“It felt really nice to know that I could ask the stupidest question in office hours, but to my professors it wouldn’t be stupid because they genuinely want to help you understand. I really appreciate that, and I don’t think I would have been able to grow and learn as much as a person had I gone to a bigger school. I’ve really grown to appreciate the resources that I find here.”
Ethnomusicology and Arts Management and Entrepreneurship Minors
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
Hodson Collaborative Research Grant
Open Studio Intern
“I’m incredibly thankful and lucky to have had this opportunity working with Dr. Schweitzer. It’s really interesting being able to work more as colleagues in this project while also being student and mentor. I’m able to freely share and develop my own thoughts, and my ideas are taken very seriously.”
“I've loved every part of this experience, but especially having the opportunity to talk to and learn from so many experts in the field. I also loved camping in Wyoming and getting to see how our samples were collected firsthand.”
“It is a nice major for people who really want to have a tangible effect, people who like to create things, and people who like everything. You do a bit of everything. Data science is very much a major that doesn’t exist without other departments. It is in service of whatever client you’re working for. It is interesting with every different job seeing a different side of an industry or a different side of academics.”
Internship with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Tribal and International Affairs
Libby and Douglas Carter Society of Junior Fellows
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Musicians Union
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
“From my anthropology classes, I’ve learned how human experience differs from culture to culture, and even within each culture. From environmental classes, I’ve learned more about what we can do to protect the environment and the people. From my museum education courses and experiences, I’ve learned how important it is to craft the educational experience based on the audience, environment, and intention, to make the greatest impact. The combination of all three has given me the foundation to do this work.”
Each center is linked to a broad intellectual community and provides programming,
events, internships, and coursework that complement the College’s diverse academic
programs.
Opportunities: CES Fellows, Chesapeake Semester, field research, conservation internships
“Everything we do here at CES is aimed at preparing our undergraduates, the next generation
of leaders, to tackle the most pressing environmental issues.”
Location: Rose O'Neill Literary House, 407 Washington Ave.
Opportunities: Cherry Tree literary journal, student publications, readings and workshops with working
writers
“The Lit House offers over 100 internships annually, hosts visits by award-winning
writers, publishes work of exceptional merit, and provides a space for students to
feel at home and to grow as writers, editors, and publishers.”
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
Location: Custom House, 101 S. Water St.
Opportunities: Explore America Summer Internships, Quill & Compass
“We offer students dynamic opportunities for hands-on learning and off-campus experiences
to explore the American experience in all its diversity and complexity, opportunities
unequaled at other small liberal arts schools.”
