I’m looking forward to establish networking with students who enjoy challenges in their courses by keeping their integrity.

By the way, thanks for the posted articles.

W.Essay.

Thanks for your time and help,
Erin

All is welcome at this event! Feel free to come on that Thursday and be a part of this lecture, and you can also take part in the SPEA Prospective Student Visit Day the following day as well. Don’t worry, you don’t have to make the decision on which grad school before you come; we’d be just as glad to have you visit!

As an international student, I had to invest a significant amount of time into learning and investigating more about companies and organizations, since I am not familiar with the job market in the U.S. That may be something you may want to plan ahead and allocate time for. I think what would be helpful for you is that you can look at SPEA’s career services website to get more of an idea. However, you will have to be a student to gain access to the internship/job listings, alumni contacts, and companies that the department has networked with.

Internships are offered by various organizations and companies every year, and the career services will generally email out opportunities to the student body, so it varies from year to year. One of the organizations that is a good fit for applied ecology is Student Conservation Association; just check it out and see if you’d be interested for next summer .

Hope this helps!

A first-year student doesn’t really have to decide until the summer, but it’s always a good idea to spend your first and definitely your second semester of the first year figuring out what you want to do. You can talk to professors who are involved in research that might interest you, or you can try to figure out if you want to obtain an internship that deals with research. All you have to do when the summer comes is enroll either in a class for writing a thesis or a class for an internship (the completion of that “class” represents the fulfillment of your thesis or experiential requirement, but you don’t necessarily have to take that “class” fore credit).

As for joint degree students like me, we have a choice to do either as well. The good thing is that we get two summers during our course of study, so you can choose to do an internship during the first summer and research during the second (or vice versa).

If you’d like more detailed information about it, please let me know. I hope this is helpful!

When does a first-year student need to decide whether he/she wants to do a thesis or an internship? Do MPA/MSES dual degree students do one or the other also, or both?