 We're at Lake Symposium 2017 where nearly 300 students will be reporting on their summer experiences in internships and research in every possible field that you can imagine. It is the largest symposium we've had so far. I worked for the Roger Torrey Peterson Estuary Center of Connecticut Audubon. I was an intern at the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University. The internship that I did over the summer was called the RISE program. It was a week-long camp, empowerment camp for juniors and seniors in high school to determine their next step. We did some research here at Mount Holyoke that demonstrates pretty convincingly that the number of internships that a student completes during her time as an undergraduate directly affects employment and graduate school outcomes six months after graduation. This summer I interned at the Bronx Defenders which is a legal public defense organization I interned in Mount Holyoke Botanical Garden. Leaves are fabulous capstone at Mount Holyoke. It is a moment when students are really realizing how many accomplishments they have. I've said to students this semester, look around, this is a snapshot of the future.