Richard G. Carlson Career Services Internship Fund

As the Cotuit Kettleers videographer intern this summer, I had the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, professional like sports environment and gain firsthand experience in the world of sports media. The Cape Cod Baseball League is the premier collegiate summer baseball leagues in the country, attracting the best college baseball players and future major leaguers from division one schools across the country.

At UW Madison I was working as a Strength and Conditioning Intern for the UW Badgers football team. Daily responsibilities included setup and breakdown of the field and weight room, data collection using Catapult GPS Systems and other sports science technology, intern academic development, and coaching and assisting with all lift groups across the day. Interns would rotate through the strength staff observing a different one of the four assistant sports performance coaches each week.

During my internship with the Cotuit Kettleers I was able to work in the highest level of collegiate summer baseball in the world. Throughout my work I had to meet tight deadlines, work collaboratively with different departments, adapt quickly, and multitask effectively. My responsibilities including creating content through my photography, videography, and graphic design as well as helping with other tasks around the park such as cleaning the field after games and assisting during community events.

This summer, I was offered a marketing internship at Height of Land Publications in Jeffersonville, VT. With Business Studies being a big part of my SLU experience, I thought an internship in the marketing field would add another level of experience and knowledge to my studies that I wouldn’t have otherwise found in the classroom. 

Birdsfoot is an organic Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in Canton, NY. 

Birdsfoot was the best possible experience I could have had during my summer going into senior year. It gave me a true understanding of everything that goes into farming from having your hands in the soil to community engagement and marketing.

Over the summer of 2024, I interned as a reporter with my regional newspaper, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. I had three goals for this internship.

First, I wanted to grow experience as a writer, giving me a stepping stone towards my future writing career. Journalism forces you write quickly, concisely, and accurately in real time, which will help me in whatever path I may ultimately pursue with writing, whether that is as a novelist, as a journalist, or as something else.

My key responsibilities during my internship as a Research Assistant at U.S. News included:

1. I was tasked with mining data on related companies for both the Best Hospitals and Best Colleges & Universities Rankings. I utilized complex Excel formulas, and employed various research tools to compile and organize substantial datasets. 

2. My work contributed to the company's mission of empowering individuals with valuable information for making informed decisions in the areas of education and healthcare.

As the student manager of St. Lawrence's permaculture garden, I was responsible for daily maintenance of the garden (weeding, mulching, planting), managing weekly volunteers, creating interactive farmers' market displays, and planning, advertising, and running community events at the garden.

Overall, this internship was the most fulfilling and fun experience I've ever had in a work environment. My life goal is to host a annual hometown festival starting in 2027 and this summer definitely helped me towards just that. My three learning goals I chose to execute before this internship were to network with music industry professionals effectively, develop a strong foundation in data analysis and reporting, and understand the revenue streams in the music industry. Some of the tasks I worked on this summer included: 

This summer I built a portfolio of professionally written articles covering Westchester County’s business activities and lifestyle and performed outreach projects within two departments for content creation. I also served as a liaison between three editorial staff members on research, writing, communications, and Excel data management for Westchester Magazine and business-to-business lifestyle publication, 914INC.

The Adirondack Review is an online literary magazine that publishes a wide range of work from fiction to translated works and more. Founded close to St. Lawrence University, I was introduced to this magazine through another student at St. Lawrence and decided it would be the perfect opportunity to explore another side of publishing as someone who wants to enter said field. I have had different experiences with other types of publishing, such as on-campus magazines like The Laurentian Magazine and The St. Lawrence Review.