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Erika Schmidt Attends Business Today’s Conference in NYC

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

What were you doing in New York the weekend before Thanksgiving?
Business Today, a student organization run by Princeton students, holds an international business conference every year. This year’s topic was Sustainable Growth: Taking Responsibility for the Future.
Tell us a little about your experience at the conference.
In more personal language, it rocked my socks off. Not [...]

Liz Widener Encourages Students to Breathe Hope

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

What is Breathe Hope and what inspired you to start this organization?
Breathe Hope is a recognized student service organization that was established in the spring of 2006. Our mission is to increase knowledge about cystic fibrosis while inspiring action from others to help fight the disease and move towards a cure. I began [...]

Nick Fluellen Ventures into the Real Estate World

Monday, October 8th, 2007

As a marketing major, how did you become interested in real estate?
I’ve always had that little voice inside of me telling me to look into real estate. Growing up I could easily get sucked into a late night infomercial about flipping properties, etc. I studied marketing with the intention of going into [...]

Annie Lu shadows doctor in Taiwan

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

What is it like to be a Business Major in the medical field?
Sometimes, it’s a little rough. I started off taking the same courses as others in my class; however, after a few semesters, I was behind a lot of the other business students just because I had to take a ton of hours for [...]

Bill Erickson: Student Entrepreneur

Monday, September 17th, 2007

What made you decide to start your own business?
Matt Mullenweg (23 year old CEO of Automattic) once told me that he started his company because he was “highly unemployable.” I think that’s true of most entrepreneurs. We start companies because we have to. Whenever I have a job, I work myself out of it. For [...]

Michael Kurt

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

How did you learn about this internship opportunity?
I learned about this opportunity from an e-mail sent out by the Career Center. I have always had the possibility of working for Disney in the back of my mind since I was a kid, but I never really thought about that possibility until finding out about the [...]