 Among all the different internship panels that we could have at Fairfield, it's really great to have one particularly geared toward students that are using their languages. Having practical experience using a language other than English is going to be an advantage. I interned for Art of Perfection Events, which is an Italian wedding company. About a year ago I did an internship with the Linguistic Society of America down in D.C. I interned at Make-A-Wish Connecticut, which is a non-profit that's actually right in Trumbull. I'm up to be a teaching intern at Fairfield Prep. I interned at Fidelity Investments in Asset Management Compliance. You have a major that's the toast, but having being bilingual is like the butter, the jam, you know? So it just adds to your resume, it helps you just effectively communicate with other people that not everyone tends to communicate with. My learning of a language has helped me understand and put myself in their shoes of what it's like to come to a whole new country and have to learn a whole new language and a whole new set of customs that they never had before. It helps me communicate to the patient and advocate for the patient. Maybe the patient doesn't know how to say something in English and I'm able to explain to him in Spanish and I'm able then to explain it to the doctors, to the counselors, to the social worker. Just don't be nervous and just really put yourself out there and try, like especially if you go abroad, try to speak in the language. Don't just go around and make yourself a part of the culture. Even within this school and this community, I think that being a language student in the upper levels, whether that's a major or a minor, will really serve you well. There was a common ground among all of the interviews which was pointing out my Asian studies minor. So every person that I interviewed with pointed it out and asked about it and it was really sort of a topic of conversation and something that they said really stood out. Anything you want to do, even if you think you're like remotely interested, like just email, call somebody, like ask and you might end up really liking it. Now I certainly think about maybe working in Italy, which I never really thought about before. I did study abroad there. It really gave me a different view on how to sort of focus my areas of finance that I was interested in and improve upon my Chinese skills because I realized how important it was in that sort of company and I think it really just made me think more about my future and where I see myself after Fairfield.