 Hey my name is Morgan. I'm a third year student in the communications and media studies honors program with a concentration in cooperative education here at Carleton. I took the IPaF 3800 developing your career and managing your employability course last semester. I chose to take the course because I saw it as an opportunity to help me be able to translate my academic skills into identifiable and practical skills in a workplace. Each week we had the opportunity to participate in a variety of experiential learning activities and then we got the chance to reflect on them to understand the skills that we were gaining. One of my favorites was when we got to use the marshmallows and toothpicks to build a tower and then understand teamwork and communication. It was those reflections that allowed us to start thinking about the skills that we gained in an academic sense and how they're transferable to a work environment. We were also given guidance on how to develop a professional cover letter, a resume and a LinkedIn profile. For the final assignment we had to create a career portfolio which was a compilation of all the activities and reflections that we did in class but also for a variety of reflections on past work and volunteer experiences. The knowledge that I gained from class allowed me to create a career portfolio which I've already used and it was instrumental in allowing me to secure employment, current employment in my field of study. I'm also now much more aware of how to articulate my skills and how to identify them to a potential employer and I hope that if you choose to take the course you get as much out of it as I did.