{"id":1833,"date":"2015-04-21T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2015-04-21T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:10:47","slug":"fun-fact-the-english-department-is-the-only-department-offering-an-internship-class-this-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2015\/04\/21\/fun-fact-the-english-department-is-the-only-department-offering-an-internship-class-this-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun fact: The English department is the only department offering an internship class this semester."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long story short, the ENGL497 students (shameless plug, I\u2019m one of them) are doing poster presentations about their internships on Tuesday the 28<sup>th<\/sup> in Trimble Forum, 5:30-6:30.\u00a0 Yes, there will be snacks.\u00a0 The snacks were, in fact, an important conversation topic in one of our classes a couple weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this matter to you non-English majors?\u00a0 Dude, a bunch of Puget Sound students got internships plus class credit for them.\u00a0 Is this not a thing about which you want to find out more?<\/p>\n<p>On a broader note, though, I think (in my extremely unbiased opinion) that these will be cool and interesting and relevant and applicable to your future job search and money-earning potential because there\u2019s a really wide range of internships.\u00a0 All of them relate in some way to writing, because this is an English credit about which we\u2019re talking, but still \u2013 the variety of things into which an English degree can translate is at least a slap in the face for any non-humanities majors who like to make fun of us.\u00a0 Jokes on them, though, because one of the themes of our class discussions was the ways in which good writing is a part of every job.\u00a0 What \u201cgood writing\u201d is, exactly, varies, but the point is that writing\u2019s everywhere so you might as well get used to it.<\/p>\n<p>So you really should consider it in your best interest to come to our event next Tuesday.\u00a0 Because even you hard scientists are going to find yourself in need of a grant someday (let\u2019s be real, sooner rather than later).\u00a0 Or you business majors are going to want to learn about managing an organization\u2019s social media image.\u00a0 Or you math majors\u2026 well, you just keep on doing your thing.\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019ll do the budgets for the grants or something.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know; come eat our mini quiches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long story short, the ENGL497 students (shameless plug, I\u2019m one of them) are doing poster presentations about their internships on Tuesday the 28th in Trimble Forum, 5:30-6:30.\u00a0 Yes, there will be snacks.\u00a0 The snacks were, in fact, an important conversation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2015\/04\/21\/fun-fact-the-english-department-is-the-only-department-offering-an-internship-class-this-semester\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leah-shamlian-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}