Name: Dan Finnegan Year: Junior Majors: Mathematics, Economics CFS Program: Business Field Studies Employer: Nousot Something I was warned about early on in my interview was the need to be able to learn under fire. I was told stories of new employees being put on daunting challenges in coding to try to learn quickly simply…
Category: CFS Student Experience
Discovering a Diverse Workload at TDH
Name: Roger Wu Year: Sophomore Majors: Journalism, MMSS Minor: Philosophy CFS Program: Business Field Studies Employer: Tom, Dick & Harry Creative Company Before this summer started, I believed that Chicago Field Studies could be helpful for my personal and professional development only because my friends who had taken CFS quarters said so. Now I have been…
Cultivating a Love for Law
Name: Maria Fernandez Year: Senior Major: Legal Studies Minor: Political Science CFS Program: Legal Field Studies Employer: Kellie Walters This summer I have had the incredible opportunity to work at the Walters Law Firm in downtown Chicago, and so far it has been such an exciting and rewarding experience. Because I am working with a…
Gearing Up for Finance at a Boutique Bank
Name: William Ouyang Year: Junior Major: Economics Minor: Music Technology CFS Program: Analysis of Field Experience Employer: Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. I’m an Economics and Music Technology student at Northwestern, and I’m spending the summer before my junior year in New York City, where I’m interning at a boutique investment bank. The Chicago Field Studies department…
Blending Consulting with Social Justice
Name: Brian Haining Year: Senior Major: Organization Behavior Minor: Economics CFS Program: Field Studies in Social Justice Employer: HBR Consulting This summer I interned with HBR consulting, a legal operations consulting firm. This firm structures their internship in a way that grants exposure to a variety of their business units; I began in their Strategic Sourcing…
Making Space for Small Businesses
Name: Sofia Babenkova Year: Senior Majors: Economics, Russian and Eastern European Studies Minor: Business Institutions CFS Program: Business Field Studies Employer: Level Office Level Office is a real-estate company that provides coworking spaces for startups and small companies. It is a startup itself, opening its first doors in Chicago in 2013. 5 years later there are…
Learning in the Workplace
Name: Nathan Weston Year: Sophomore Majors: Neuroscience Minor: Economics CFS Program: Business Field Studies Employer: Healthbox I am currently interning at the healthcare consulting firm Healthbox, doing both projects for their consulting team and research for their micro-fund team. I really enjoy being in the workplace; there’s a lot you simply have to experience and cannot…
Focusing on the Community at Yellow Tractor
Name: Leta Dickinson Year: Junior Majors: Journalism, Environmental Science CFS Program: Field Studies in the Humanities Employer: Yellow Tractor LLC After working as a climbing coach, writing tutor, and SCUBA instructor, this CFS position was my most conventional job. It was about time that I took on a job that had regular hours and business casual…
Using NU Skills in Healthcare and Education
Name: Genesis Garcia Year: Senior Majors: Communication Sciences and Disorders, Psychology Minor: Spanish CFS Program: Field Studies in the Public Health Employer: Legal Council for Health Justice For my last quarter at Northwestern, I decided to bring some purple pride into Chicago through CFS. I love having one foot in Evanston and the other in the Loop, I love waking up…
Working with Clients at Nielsen
Name: Yuri Xi Year: Junior Major: Economics Minors: Business Institutions, Integrated Marketing Communications CFS Program: Field Studies in the Modern Workplace Employer: Nielsen Nielsen is a global information and measurement company. It provides market research, insights and data about what people watch, listen to and buy to retailers, manufactures, media owner and agencies through various solutions. As an economics major also…
Conserving the Environment at Foresight
Name: Sarah Walwema Year: Senior Major: Environmental Science Minor: German CFS Program: Field Studies in Environment, Science, and Sustainability Employer: Foresight Design Initiative Before I had this opportunity with Foresight, I had never before worked in an office environment long-term. I have always been passionate about the environment and had only worked on the conservation and ecological side of environmentalism before…
Picking the Right Internship
Name: Kelly Tan Year: Senior Major: Journalism Minor: Asian American Studies CFS Program: Field Studies in Social Justice Employer: Perfect Search Media I spent a lot of time interviewing for internships in the winter, hoping to get one more work experience before I graduated and got thrown into the real world. Luckily I found one and was able to learn a…