The Career Center is absolutely thrilled with the opportunity to be launching the Career Fellows Program this fall. After taking a hiatus for a few years, the program is back in full force! We have decided to unveil the new career fellows for y'all with some fun by following the Vanity Fair style—The Proust Questionnaire. Without further adieu, please help us in welcoming our 5 dynamic Career Fellows...drum roll please...
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| The Career Fellows enjoyed a rock climbing expedition during training. |
Name: Jorge Anton Garcia
Graduation year: 2017
Major: Computer Engineering
Where you interned this summer? BSH Group in Spain: Worked on the maintenance team of a new plant which manufactures electric stoves. (Very interesting!)
What is your current state of mind?
Weird mix of summer relaxation and excitement for a great year.
What is your motto?
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Who are your heroes in real life?
My parents (I know, very creative). They gave me opportunities they couldn't even imagine having at my age. Gracias!
My parents (I know, very creative). They gave me opportunities they couldn't even imagine having at my age. Gracias!
What is your most marked characteristic?
Smile?
Smile?
As a career fellow, what are you most
excited about?
Actually getting to know people who come in to the office.
Actually getting to know people who come in to the office.
Name: Mod Boon-Long
Graduating Year: 2016
Major: Economics and
International Relations with a Communications and Media Studies minor
Where you interned this summer: I
worked as a Development and Programming Intern at Let's Get Ready, a nonprofit
that helps low-income and first generation students apply to and graduate from
college. I also worked as a part time tour guide for the Admissions office.
What is your current state of
mind?
Happy but nervous. I’m super
excited to see my friends back on campus and bask in the glory of having the
senior status, but I’m super nervous that graduation will be here in no time
and I still have no post-graduation plans!
What is your motto?
Everything happens for a reason.
Who are your heroes in real life?
My dad. Every day he shows me the
meaning of hard work and I wouldn’t be the person I am today without him.
What is you most marked
characteristic?
Imaginative.
As a career fellow, what are you
most excited about?
To help guide underclassmen to
all the different resources the Career Center has to offer; I wish there was
something like this when I was a freshmen!
Name: Sean Boyden
Graduation year: 2017
Majors: Biopsychology and
Community Health
Where you interned this summer?
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Section of Clinical
Sciences
What is your current state of mind?
Student.
Not just in college, but in general. There’s so much that I have to learn in
life, and right now I’m just trying to absorb as much as possible and take
copious notes.
What
is your motto?
“Be the person your 8-year-old self
would look up to.”
Who
are your heroes in real life?
My two idols are, in no order, Atul
Gawande and Tina Fey. Atul Gawande is my favorite nonfiction author, a surgeon,
and a public health researcher – my dream career. His probing analysis of life,
and subsequent devotion to constant improvement thereof, inspires me to be the
best version of myself that I can possibly be. Tina Fey, on the other hand, is
my favorite actress and TV writer – the latter of which is my secret and even
less realistic dream career. Everything she does inspires me to be the funniest
version of myself that I can possibly be.
What
is you most marked characteristic?
I have a tendency to make jokes when
I’m uncomfortable, and since I’m a generally awkward person who’s uncomfortable
in almost any situation, I make jokes a lot.
As
a career fellow, what are you most excited about?
I’m most excited about being able to
spread the word about the Career Center throughout the Tufts community. The
Career Center is, in my opinion, one of Tufts’ most valuable resources, one
that every student should tap into. By facilitating this, I hope that the
career fellows program will make a real impact on students’ time on campus.
Name: Bruce Duggan
Graduation
year: 2016
Major: Political Science and
Spanish
Where
you interned this summer? I interned in the
Mayor's Office of my hometown.
What is your
current state of mind?
I can't believe it is my
senior year! Where did the time go? I have been thinking about this question a
lot as I have gone through my first week of the first semester of senior year!
Freshman year felt very distinct. Then, sophomore and junior blended a bit in
certain ways. The question, what are you going to do after Tufts, feels
very real now. The question of were you able to cross everything off your
bucket list comes to mind. It is an exciting time, but also feels like it
happened far too quickly.
What
is your motto?
Keep pushing yourself.
While this is often easier said than done, we have to continually push
ourselves within our comfort zones and outside it if we ever hope to be able to
grow to the fullest extent. We will never be able to reach beyond what we
imagine is initially possible if we don't try to challenge ourselves
and what we think we are capable of doing. I think a second part to this would
then be to get back up if you fall down. Also if you fall down, don't view it
as a weakness but rather a greater understanding of ways to do things better or
indeed that you have found your true limits by pushing yourself outside of your
comfort zone.
Who
are your heroes in real life?
I have many people I
look up to and view as heroes, but I think one thing most have in common is
their dedication to persevere against all odds
and at the same time take a step back and consider how they can help someone
else, even on a daily basis. Did they take the time to hold the door open for
someone who had many things in their hands? Did they take the time to
give up their seat on the train or bus to someone else who could benefit more
greatly than them for a chance to sit down, i.e. someone much older? Did they
take the time to help someone in other ways, perhaps a person's bike has a
wheel stuck in a hole and needs help getting it out? While we each will never
be all of those things all the time and perhaps not even at all, the people who
do try to emulate these characteristics should be heralded as everyday heroes
in my opinion.
What
is you most marked characteristic?
My hair. I know, it
sounds like I am quoting the movie Legally Blonde or it's just an odd response.
However, I like to have short hair. I don't necessarily favor a bald head, but
I don't enjoy long hair strands of hair that curl, spiral and require a lot of
combing. Perhaps it is partly because I participated in too many outdoor summer
camps as a child and did not like moving long strands of hair out of my eyes
when playing playing basketball, dodgeball or kickball. Or maybe it is just
because I think that a short hair cut provides for a clean, sharper look.
However, whenever I talk with someone who I haven't seen for a while they are
likely to comment on the status of my hair, whether it is too long, or not
quite the normal length.
As
a career fellow, what are you most excited about?
I think that as a career
fellow I am most excited to help underclassmen utilize the many great resources
within the Career Center. I sometimes think that freshmen and even sophomores
feel that they can only go to the Career Center when they are looking for a job
in their senior year or for an internship during the junior year summer.
However, that is far from the truth. The career center is there to help
everyone throughout their entire time at Tufts from Freshman year to Senior
Year and beyond even as Tufts alumni!
Name: Stephanie Li
Graduation year: 2016
Major: History major, Studio Art and Entrepreneurial Leadership
Studies minor
Where you interned this summer? The Future Project
What is your
current state of mind? Excited! And nervous. Here we go, senior year.
What
is your motto? "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien
Who
are your heroes in real life? Pentatonix, Scott Bradlee, and my sister
What
is you most marked characteristic? Every now and then, I get these
moments where I burst out laughing for no particular reason. It usually goes on for a
good ten minutes.
As
a career fellow, what are you most excited about? I am super excited about
exploring possibilities and passions with y'all!
Come
and meet with one of our new career fellows—a professionally trained group of
students who are eager and ready to guide you along in your career journey! Career
Fellows are here to assist you with resume writing as well as to teach you how
to effectively navigate our online
resources. They will be available to work with you
in the Career Center as well as in residence halls.
Shannon Seaver and Jim McCarthy are Assistant Directors in the Career Center, and they oversee the Career Fellows Program.
Shannon Seaver began her role as Assistant Director at the Tufts Career Center during summer 2014. As Assistant Director, her programming focuses on seniors and graduate students within the School of Arts and Sciences. Prior to Tufts, she worked at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she also received her Master’s Degree in Education. While at UMass Boston, she served as the career specialist liaison to the College of Liberal Arts, assisting all current undergraduates, graduates and alumni. Shannon has also worked for various nonprofits in the Greater Boston Area serving at risk youth, including managing a youth career center.
Shannon Seaver and Jim McCarthy are Assistant Directors in the Career Center, and they oversee the Career Fellows Program.
Shannon Seaver began her role as Assistant Director at the Tufts Career Center during summer 2014. As Assistant Director, her programming focuses on seniors and graduate students within the School of Arts and Sciences. Prior to Tufts, she worked at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she also received her Master’s Degree in Education. While at UMass Boston, she served as the career specialist liaison to the College of Liberal Arts, assisting all current undergraduates, graduates and alumni. Shannon has also worked for various nonprofits in the Greater Boston Area serving at risk youth, including managing a youth career center.
Shannon hails from the west coast—Carpinteria, California —a
small coastal town near Santa Barbara, known for having the “safest beach in
the world” and also for its annual Avocado Festival! As you might guess,
Shannon can make a mean guacamole! She then spent five years in cheese and
badger country, also known to many as Madison, Wisconsin where she received her
B.A. in Spanish. After graduation, Shannon decided that Madison just wasn’t
cold enough, so she headed east, landing in Boston where she has resided for
the past 13 years. She has learned to love all four seasons, especially summer
when she can visit the beautiful beaches of the North Shore, as well as dance
salsa in the parks.
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