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CONTENTS

Awesome interviews with Ariel interns

Advice on graduate school application

Local internship opportunities

Fishing and Brokering in AlaskaInterview with Dylan Hitchcock-Lopez (SF14) by Allen Matsika

Dylan spent his summer in Southeast Alaska, at theAlaskan Salmon Fishing/Brokerage firm, Shawn Delaney-At-Sea-Salmon Brokerage. Having grown upfishing commercially in Southeast Alaska, he wanted abusiness perspective on the whole fishing activity. Summers in Alaska receive extra daylight, experiencingonly four hours of darkness a day. From Dylan’s descrip-tion, it was beautiful. Read on to find out more about hisinternship experience. Remember to check out the ArielInternship Reports when they are published and visit theCareer Services Offices for a copy and a chance to see theendless possibilities you can explore every summer.

Q: Dylan, did this internship have anything to dowith your intended career path?

It is yet to be decided, but the back story is that I grewup in commercial fishing. When you grow up on fishingboats you essentially become comfortable with one sideof the fishing business, which is catching fish. But Istarted looking at how much we were paid for the fish off the boat and how much the fish cost in the grocerystore. I realized there was a huge difference in theprices. The fish in the grocery store was $20-$24 morethan what we sold it for off the boat. So I began to wonder what happened between the time we sold thefish and when the fish got to the grocery store. I wantedto try to work in the world of marketing fish, selling fish,and doing things around that side of the fish business.

CAREER SERVICES AT ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE | SANTA FE | OCTOBER 2013

“When it comes down to it,the food we eat, how weget that food, and how wedeal with that food, arereally important issues.”

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The fishing industry has been growing eight percent per year since 1980. It is one of thefew industries that we are still in a hunter-gatherer relationship with. Regulating that, making sure it’s sustainable, how to meet the demand and not deplete resources—all theseare big questions. I wanted to talk to some people about this and research it for myself.

Q: Would you say you achieved your goals for the summer?

I did actually, I had one main mentor in the business and I learned a lot from him. I alsoworked with Alaska’s Own, a local organization that delivers fish from local fishermen tolocal people, bypassing the grocery stores. This ensures that the community that lives closeto a food source gets to use that resource.

Q: It is beginning to sound serious and philosophical. Would you say you had fun this summer?

It is really fun to go fishing, and getting a glimpse of the business side was great. This summer was like bringing two sides of my life together: the practice of commercial fishingand my education at St. John’s. When it comes down to it, the food we eat, how we get thatfood, and how we deal with that food, are really important issues. I hadn’t really been incommunities where these were so important. I had talked to restaurants and grocers, but itwas different being in a fishing community and being more on the business side of things. Ifound that the philosophical and practical aspects of what we are doing on our planet arevery similar and we have to deal with them from both sides.

Q: What was the most challenging thing that happened to you this summer?

In the real world you make plans, but plans can go wrong. One of the challenges I faced wasthat one of the companies I worked with was good at cutting and preparing the fish, but theywere bad with deadlines. I would tell them of a delivery three weeks before it was due, butthey would not be ready by that date. My integrity and professionalism as a supplier wascompromised. It is tough to make a plan and work in some wiggle room for when things gowrong. Being polite and keeping a civil relationship with business associates who don’t follow through can be a huge challenge. We have dealt with this challenge in seminars at St. John’s as we interact and talk, but when people’s money is on the table, the situation ismuch more dramatic.

Q: If you had not done this internship, what would you have done?

I would have had to work so I could come back to school. I would have gone fishing, and itwould have been alright, but it wouldn’t have been optimal. The things that I learned, thepeople I dealt with, and the connections I made this summer would never have happened. Iwould have been out on the boat, which I enjoy, but it wouldn’t have allowed for the integra-tion of my St. John’s education and the practical side of life. The Ariel Internship was a hugeopportunity and a great help in making these experiences possible.

Q: What was cool about this internship besides the work?

The coolest thing was being in this small town that I am from. I know most of the peoplethere, but it was different talking to people and developing relationships involving politicsand business. At one time I was sitting at a lunch table with a guy from the Alaska MarineSafety Education Association (AMSEA), an environmental lawyer, and the local journalist.We had this really deep conversation that spanned the fields of politics, law, local concernsand somehow centered mainly on fish. That was cool.

Dylan loves bagels and lox, and we might be having a bite together sometime soon.

Brokering in his home-town, Dylan gets first-hand experience of thebusiness side of fishingin familiar surroundings.

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Majestic Mountains and Beautiful LanguagesInterview with Yesha Mala (SF14) by Allen MatsikaPreservation of Endangered Languages, Southern Illinois University

When asked about her Ariel internship in Nepal, Yesha seems to begin telling a fairytale ofdistant lands, gorgeous mountains, beautiful languages, and wonderful people. She talks oftime spent sampling local food, moments of self-discovery that just blew her mind, and rich incidents of self-conquering. She speaks four languages fluently and understands three others. The following is the interview Odyssey Bound managed to get with her.

Q: Where exactly in Nepal did you do this internship?

I worked in Kathmandu but we took a 26-day excursion to the mountain villages of Manang. We can call this 26-day trip the field work or the actual work. We left on June 3,travelled two days in a jeep, and then we had to walk to all the villages we had in mind. Atone time it snowed terribly and we could not leave a village for some days, but it wasn’t sobad. I had a copy of War and Peace to keep me company. My project director had set up anoffice in Kathmandu, so when we were done with the field work, we worked there. I basically stayed at home and went to work every day. It was really good to be able to gohome.

Q: Is preserving endangered languages what you want to do after St. John’s?

It is definitely an option. I really got into it over the summer and I have a personal stake init. My family speaks a dialect that I cannot really speak and I would love to get to know it. As fewer and fewer people speak it, it could die.

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“[Languages] are so importantand amazing — it is communi-

cation. Even when we interviewed the people in

Manang I marveled…Thesepeople had found a set of

totally different sounds for communication.”

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Q: It sounds like you got more interested in the preservation of languages over thesummer. Why did you choose this internship and not go fishing like Dylan?

As the 2012-13 academic year began I was set on getting an Ariel Internship. I lookedat things I was interested in. One of those things is languages, and then I heard of thisproject in Nepal. It offered me an opportunity to go home and do what I love doing,which is dabbling with languages. During my first two years at St. John’s I really gotinto Greek. I am a French Assistant right now because I was fascinated by the Frenchlanguage as well. I am very much interested in the structure of languages and theirsounds. They are so important and amazing, it is communication. Even when we inter-viewed the people in Manang I marveled at how different and beautiful the languagessounded. These people had found a set of totally different sounds for communication.

Anyway, when I was checking out the internship, I talked to Kristine Hildebrandt, myproject coordinator. She told me that we were going to interview people and ask themwhat they thought about their own language. She said we were going to record the peo-ple telling a story. Then she said we were going to hike to the remote parts of my homecountry, Nepal. I had never really been out of Kathmandu, but I had heard Manang isreally beautiful. When I went there it was amazing. I am also not very physical; I likewalking but when it comes to hiking it is really hard for me. But when we hiked I wassurprised to look at the time and realize I had been hiking for 11 hours. It was amazing.

Q: Did you have a Plan B for this summer?

No, I didn’t actually. My only other option was to stay on campus and work. I am reallyglad I got the Ariel Internship. I discovered a lot about myself. I realized that I can doanything. For example, I was asked to work with some language software and I thoughtI would never get it, but, surprisingly, I got really good at it by the end of about threeweeks. I hiked up the mountain; it’s such a gradual process you know. You take onestep and then you take another step, and then you get up the mountain. When we got to the top I was like, “Yeah, I can do anything.” I was on top of a mountain, looking toward other icy peaks, the wind was blowing, and the rest of the view was gorgeous. Itwas just the best place to have such a realization. I am glad I got the Ariel, which made itpossible for me to take advantage of this very interesting internship.

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Continued from page 3“I had never really been out ofKathmandu, but I had heardManang is really beautiful.When I went there it was amazing.”

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Career Fair

Career Fair in Pictures

The Fourth Annual Career Fair

hosted in September, was a huge

success. Numerous local opportuni-

ties were made available and we

even had an alumnus show up

from a local non-profit organiza-

tion called ¡YouthWorks!. Career

Services hopes you all benefited

from the information. Furthermore,

we hope you got some of the free

t-shirts and swag. We encourage

anyone who didn’t attend this year

to stop by next time.

ArtsmartAudubon New MexicoBig Brother Big SistersBreakthrough Santa FeCenter for Contemporary ArtsCouncil on International RelationsGeorgia O’Keeffe MuseumCornerstone Community Partnerships

Del Norte Credit UnionLensic Performing Arts

MATCH New MexicoNew Mexico Workforce Solutions Peace Corps Positive Energy SolarREISJC Career Services SJC Residential Life-Project Politae

SJC Mad Skills Program: Life Beyond the Great Books!

SF Alliance for Science

SF Children’s MuseumSF Concert AssociationSF Habitat for HumanitySF Film FestivalSF Independent Film FestivalSF World Affairs ForumSimon Charitable FoundationSITE Santa FeTheaterworkThe Reporter

US BankU.S. Department of StateWarehouse 21Wells Fargo BankWhole FoodsWomen’s International Study Center

¡YouthWorks!

CAREER FAIR PARTICIPANTS

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Profile

Taking advantage of local opportunitiesInterview with Michael Santillanes (SF03), Associate Director of ¡YouthWorks! By Allen Matsika

As editor of Odyssey Bound I had a great opportunity to chat with St. John’s alumnusMichael Santillanes. He is the associate director of the local organization ¡YouthWorks!, anon-profit whose culinary project provides over 300 lunches a day to two local charterschools and to other youth working on community service projects. ¡YouthWorks! YouthBuild program has built eight town homes for low income families in the last two years withtheir partners, Habitat for Humanity. ¡YouthWorks! has also helped dozens of high schooldropouts complete their GEDs and enroll in college. Laid back, engaged, and ready to discuss big questions, Michael made me feel at home away from the familiar Johnnie campus. We were exchanging experiences and talking about the Program in no time.

Before we get into what !YouthWorks! is, or what Michael does, I will highlight theimportant question of the day:

Q: Why Santa Fe? Why did you decide to settle and work here?

I have always had roots in Santa Fe; my family was here for a while and we moved a lot,but I always considered Santa Fe my home base. My grandfather was a tutor in Annapolisand he was one of the first tutors to come out here when the school expanded to this sideof the country. I moved to Alaska in 1991, but I came back in 1999 to go to St. John’sCollege. I decided to settle here because I wanted to give back to the Santa Fe commu-nity and the larger New Mexican community. New Mexico is one of the poorest states. Ithas some of the highest poverty rates and people struggle a lot here. This is the side ofSanta Fe that many don’t get to see. Many just go downtown and remain there and get animpression of affluence and beauty. We do have a thriving tourist industry and that isgood for the economy, but the other less-affluent side of New Mexico sometimes getsswept under the rug. Engaging with the populace of this other less-affluent side, gettingto know these people, makes you realize they deserve a chance to make something ofthemselves.

Michael Santillanesstanding in front of agorgeous mural some¡YouthWorks! partici-

pants painted in the¡YouthWorks! facility.

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Q: How does your SJC education tie in with your responsibilities as associate director?

When I started working at ¡YouthWorks! I was a teacher for the GED class, which coversfive subjects: reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies. I was required toteach all of these subjects. Coming from St. John’s, it was very easy to engage with stu-dents across these different fields. Furthermore, I had learned at St. John’s that dialogueis a great vehicle for learning. Education by its nature is true dialogue, it is dynamic. Thestudent is not a cup to be filled with water, but rather it is like lighting a fire. I love theteaching experience, but I chose to step up to the position of associate director when itwas offered to me because I see the importance of it and how it makes everything else pos-sible. I think having good administrators in these types of institutions, and in education ingeneral, is really important. When I look for teachers, I ensure that they keep in mind thetype of educational philosophy that I think is appropriate when dealing with the under-privileged group. It has been a great experience and an opportunity for me to grow. Grantwriting, working behind the scenes to keep the program running and keep the organiza-tion strong, and ensuring that we have the resources that we need in order to run the programs to help these young people. I do miss the direct interaction in the classroom,but I keep my feet grounded and make sure that I still know all the participants and youngpeople, and I interact with them in a different capacity.

Q: Many young people consider Santa Fe a little boring. What do you do for fun inSanta Fe?

Most of my time gets taken up by work, but I like playing sports. I play basketball and re-cently I have taken up tennis. Some of my students have taken an interest in custom carbuilding and low riders, so I bought a 1976 Chevrolet Monte Carlo on Craigslist. Ibought the shell actually and with the help of my students we built an engine and in-stalled it. It’s kind of a work in progress but I think it is a good hobby for me.

Q: I am very interested in non-profit organizations and I am hoping to found onesomeday. I suspect I am not the only one interested in non-profits at St. John’s.What advice do you have for people like me?

Well, I would like to say starting a non-profit is not easy, so make sure that you have a clearvision of your mission and dedicate yourself to whatever it is that drives you. Make sure thatnothing ever gets in the way of that. There are many ‘top down’ or ‘top heavy’ non-profits,where people at the top and the staff get large salaries and very few of the funds get to wherethey are supposed to go. I discourage becoming one of these non-profits. Non-profit is adedication, it is for a larger cause and that knowledge needs to stay at the forefront. If youcan do that and produce a high quality product or service, things will happen. It is aboutbeing able to show the results and show them on paper and not lose track of the heart of whatyou are doing. It is definitely possible and needed in this world.

Michael came to the Career Fair hosted by Career Services in September and he says that¡YouthWorks! is looking for tutors. Check out the ¡YouthWorks! mission below:

¡YouthWorks¡ is a non-profit, community-based organization that creates opportunities for disconnected youth and families in Northern New Mexico to become engaged and valuedmembers of their communities. Through our programs: job training and placement, lifeskills, counseling, education, and leadership development, we inspire youth to realize theirfull potential.For more information visit: http://santafeyouthworks.org/home.php

“I do miss the direct interac-tion in the classroom, but Ikeep my feet grounded andmake sure that I still know allthe participants and youngpeople, and I interact withthem in a different capacity.”

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Internships

Internships Local Internship and Volunteer Opportunity Highlights

Most of the 35 organizations attending this year’s annual Community & Career Fair offered terrific job or internship opportunities. If you are thinking about staying in Santa Fe or the southwest this summer and applying for an Ariel Internship, or have an interest in pursuing a local volunteer or internship opportunityduring the academic year, here is a sampling of some great organizations that offerpossibilities.

Artsmart – Offers art programming for youth throughout the year. St. John’s seniorEmma Diez completed an Ariel Internship this past summer with Fine Arts for Children and Teens (FACT), a program of Artsmart. She would be a great person totalk to about this organization.

For more information contact: Lisa Vakharia or Amanda Lee at 505-989-1199 x14

Breakthrough Santa Fe – “Students Teaching Students is a tuition-free program inwhich talented high school and college students teach middle school students, withlimited educational opportunities, the academic, organizational and social skills theywill need to succeed in competitive high schools.” This program is administered out of Santa Prep (down the street from St. John’s) and has opportunities for their after-school program and during the summer with the supplement of an Ariel Intern-ship award.

For more information contact: Talia Winokur, 505-982-1829. Or visit:http://www.breakthroughsantafe.org

Center for Contemporary Arts – “The Mission of the CCA is to create, maintain,and promote a vibrant regional gathering place for the exploration and presentationof diverse and challenging contemporary art forms and ideas through interdiscipli-nary programs: film, visual arts, performance, and educational outreach.” EmmaDiez and other Johnnies have volunteered and interned with CCA over the past fewyears.

For more information contact: Karen Ramage 505-1338 x108 or visit: http://ccas-antafe.org

Santa Fe Council on International Relations (CIR) – “CIR is dedicated to promot-ing the understanding of international issues and cultural affairs and to promoting‘grassroots diplomacy.’ They provide discussion opportunities, lectures, seminars,travel opportunities, student outreach activities and international visitor meetings.CIR’s activities are designed to stimulate dialogue within the community about cur-rent foreign affairs issues and help educate members, students and the communityabout current international issues that affect the United States.” St. John’s seniorAlexandra Marx just completed an Ariel Internship with CIR and she would be happyto talk about her experience. She can be reached at a.kmarx@yahoo.com.

For more information about CIR contact: Patti Poitras, 505-982-4931 or visit:https://www.sfcir.org

The Randall Davey Audubon Center in Santa Fe)

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Cornerstone Community Partnerships –This organization has worked to preservearchitectural heritage and community traditions at more than 300 locations in New Mexico and the greater southwest. Paid and unpaid internship and volunteer opportunities are available throughout the year.

For more information contact: Robin Jones (SF84), 505-982-9521 or visit:http://cstones.or/

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum – An internship at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum offersan invaluable learning experience by giving you the opportunity to do real work andparticipate in the operation of a museum. There are a variety of internship opportuni-ties, both paid and unpaid, throughout the academic year and during the summer.

Stop by Career Services for program information or contact: Jackie M, 505-946-1006, jackiem@okeeffemuseum.org or visit: www.okeeffemu-seum.org/internships.html

Randall Davey Audubon Center – Volunteers are needed at the center for all sorts of activities. Spend a few hours a week at an idyllic 135-acre wildlife sanctuary nestledin the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (not far from St. John’s College).This organization offers paid internships with housing during the summer.

For more information contact: Dana Strang, 505-983-6245 x27 or visithttp://nm.audubon.org

Women’s International Study Center (WISC) – “Spanning 150 years, three re-markable women, three generations of the same family, made their marks on the world.For over a century they were an active, creative presence in the Southwest. The housethey designed and lived in for decades in Santa Fe, the Acequia Madre House, home ofthe newly formed Women’s International Study Center, is an institute focusing onwomen in the arts, sciences, cultural preservation and business.” WISC offers resi-dency to scholars. If you are interested in contributing to this newly formed organiza-tion they are interested in developing an internship opportunity for you.

For more information contact: Bunny Huffman, 505-983-6538 or visit: http://wisc-amh.org

These are just a few of the prospects in Santa Fe. If you have other ideas and want todiscuss possibilities that interest you, then call, email, or visit the Career Services office and speak with Barbara Lucero Sand, Assistant Director and Internship Coordi-nator: 505-984-6132, blucerosand@sjcsf.edu.

Check out http://www.santafe.com/calendar/for Santa Fe events!

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Graduate School

Graduate School — Choosing Programs and Applications

To find out more about a particular field, talk to your tutors and St. John’s alumni.They can share their experiences and also help you determine which fields are mostclosely related to your particular interests, and also suggest universities that are com-patible with what you want to study. Tutors can also be helpful in explaining the grad-uate school environment and what you should be looking for in terms of faculty andfacilities as you are researching schools. Another part of your research should includegoing to the college’s library and reading journals or looking up articles on the Inter-net that have been written by the faculty at your intended graduate schools. If theMeem Library doesn’t have a copy of the journal you need, you aren't sure whichjournal you need, or you are having difficulty with an Internet search – ask the librar-ians for help. Also use the Occupational Outlook Handbook, which can be found on-line at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/, to learn more about specific careers and thedegrees needed for each. Other good resources in the Career Service Library in-clude The Real Guide to Graduate School (Humanities and Social Sciences) and Get-ting What You Came For.

Graduate school applications in any field of study are complicated and the selec-tion process is highly competitive. Do not waste your effort if you are unsure aboutWHAT you want to study and WHY you need a particular degree. General interestsin a field are fine, but you need to be as specific as possible in your Statement of Purpose in each application, so be sure to focus your interest before you begin yourapplications. Graduate admissions committees understand that your interests maychange once you begin classes, but they need to see that you have done enoughthinking and research about a particular field or subject and that your interests are inline with the interests of their faculty and the courses being offered. No one is goingto check in 10 years to see if you are doing what you proposed in a graduate schoolapplication, but if you are too vague and aspire to a variety of types of study, you areunlikely to be successful at most schools. For PhD programs in particular, it actuallyhelps to spell out your plans for a dissertation topic when you are applying. Also,some schools will not let you defer entry after acceptance, so be sure you want to bein school next fall if you are applying this year.

Graduate school is where you will establish important contacts for the first few yearsof your professional life. It is helpful to apply to schools in a part of the country whereyou would like to stay, and to study with individuals in a department with whom youwant to exchange ideas for some time. If at all possible, visit schools either before youapply or certainly before you accept an offer. Also, talk with current graduate studentsat each school. They will be able to tell you whether they are happy in that environmentor if it has turned out to be entirely different than what was advertised on the school’swebsite. They can also give you insights about particular professors.

Once you have a short list of schools, approximately 8-10, figure out what is re-quired for each application. Do you need to take the GRE, and, if so, is the GeneralGRE enough or does your field require a GRE Subject Test (normally required in thesciences)? Is the application online or hard copy? How many letters of recommenda-tion do you need? What are the instructions for the Statement of Purpose (also

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sometimes called “Letter of Intent” or “Proposed Course of Study”)? Is there a sepa-rate application for financial aid or are all applicants automatically considered for aid?What types of aid are available — departmental scholarships, teaching assistantships,grants? Are there any additional materials required, such as writing samples or a port-folio of your art work?

Most of the details mentioned above will be solely your responsibility, but you obvi-ously need assistance from tutors for the letters of recommendation. DO NOT WAITuntil the last minute (e.g. the day before the letter is due) and expect your tutors to pro-duce a quality recommendation. Strong, effective letters of recommendation requiretime and thought to craft. Don’t assume that every tutor will feel able to provide such aletter. If one of them declines to write a letter, thank them, and ask someone else. Onceyour tutors have agreed to write letters, the more information you can give them aboutwhat you want to study, where, and why, the more detailed and helpful their letters canbe. Get yourself organized so that you are asking for these letters at least a month be-fore the letters are due. During that month, check in with the tutors to see if they needany more details from you. That can also be a gentle reminder that the deadline is ap-proaching. Make sure each tutor knows whether to send hard copies of the letter di-rectly to your schools (with envelopes and postage provided by you) or upload theletter to an online application site. Make sure they are comfortable with either format.For those who may not want to face an online system, remind them that Career Servicescan assist them with that process. Also, please ask all of them to provide electroniccopies of their letters for your file at Career Services, which will be saved for future use.

Choosing to apply to graduate or professional school is one of the most importantcareer decisions you will make. To do it successfully, it should be like a full-time job,not something that you try to squeeze in around classes, jobs, extra-curricular activi-ties, and special study groups. Don’t expect to be able to pull together a strong, effective application overnight. The Statement of Purpose alone will require multipledrafts and reading by unbiased advisors (e.g. tutors, Writing Assistants, the CareerServices Director). Schools set up fairly complicated application processes partly tosee if you can read and follow the directions and “jump through their hoops.” If this allsounds like much more than you can handle the fall semester of your senior year, withapplications due anywhere from December 1 to the end of February, then you maywant to consider taking an extra year to really give thought to exactly what you want tostudy and where, and to be able to devote the necessary concentrated time to compile astrong and focused application. If you decide you want to take a year off, visit CareerServices to talk about and brainstorm other options for the year after you graduate. If you decide to forge ahead with applications, Career Services can also help you getorganized and gather the various pieces of your applications. Don’t feel that you haveto do this alone!

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20 Cities That Are Hiring Liberal Arts Majorsby Vivian Giang, from BUSINESS INSIDER, August 29, 2013

“Liberal arts majors have had it pretty rough, but things may be looking up. While liberal arts grads face the highest unemployment ratesof all undergraduate majors, labor-market analytics firm Burning Glass released a new report showing the 20 U.S. cities where liberal artsmajors are most in demand. They analyzed more than 23,000 employer sites and job boards to find the cities with the most entry-level jobpostings available to these grads.

Of the nearly one million jobs that Burning Glass found open to liberal arts majors nationwide, New York and LA had the most openings at101,750 and 66,747 respectively, but also the stiffest competition. However, the problem is that liberal arts majors aren’t the only candi-dates applying to these jobs.

‘When you look at the numbers, [liberal arts grads] aren’t only competing with their cohorts, but also with job changers and other candi-dates with communication, research, and problem-solving skills,’ Matthew Sigelman, Burning Glass CEO, tells Business Insider.

Sigelman says if liberal arts graduates incorporated ‘a relatively small dose’ of any of the following eight technical skills to their back-ground, their job prospects would nearly double to about two million openings nationwide. These skills are marketing, sales, business, social media, graphic design, data analysis, computer programming, and IT networking.

‘We instilled these specific eight skill sets because they’re skills we thought people could develop within their liberal arts studies or intern-ships,’ says Sigelman. ‘It’s a tough market if you don’t have these additional skills.” (See the chart for the Burning Glass list of cities withthe most jobs open to liberal arts majors. Also see the articles in this issue regarding the new Pathways Fellowships and expanded Ariel Internship program.)

Location Postings Open to Postings Liberal Arts Total Postings Open Liberal Arts Graduates Graduates Can Qualify for to Liberal Arts GraduatesWith No Additional Training with Additional Technical Skills

Nation-wide 954,996 861,572 1,816,688New York, NY 101,750 80,212 181,962Los Angeles, CA 66,747 45,952 112,699Washington, DC 47,129 39,234 86,364Chicago, IL 54,131 38,376 92,507Boston, MA 21,220 21,301 42,521Dallas, TX 45,616 32,757 78,347San Francisco, CA 35,932 26,647 62,579Atlanta, GA 40,799 26,016 66,815Philadelphia, PA 38,940 25,599 64,539Houston, TX 29,598 18,636 48,233Seattle, WA 32,034 21,700 53,734Detroit, MI 26,542 17,480 44,022San Jose, CA 12,958 10,568 23,526Denver, CO 22,722 16,111 38,832Miami, FL 29,290 15,911 45,202Phoenix, AZ 26,640 16,728 43,368Minneapolis, MN 21,621 15,834 37,455Portland, OR 18,441 12,031 30,472Baltimore, MD 16,570 11,124 27,693San Diego, CA 17,538 11,921 29,459

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Bridges To Your FutureAs nice as it would be to continue as a student at St. John’s forever, graduation (hope-fully) happens for all of you. Then the question becomes, “what’s next?” The collegeand Career Services want to help all students find answers to that question. If youthink graduate or professional school or a creative endeavor is your next step, considerapplying for a Pathways Fellowship. The Pathways Fellowships are a new college-funded program that has been created on both campuses to enable St. John’s students to transition into graduate study or careers that call for special or prerequisitecourses. Through this program, current sophomores, juniors, and seniors, includinginternational students, can apply for up to $2,500 to enroll in summer classes in, forexample, teacher education programs for public school certification, art or creativewriting classes in preparation of a portfolio, pre-medical courses, or study abroad programs. Financial need is not an eligibility factor for a Pathways Fellowship, but astrong application that explains why a proposed program is vital for a student’s careergoals will be required. An application form and complete application details, as well asassistance with creating a Pathways application, are available from the Career Servicesoffice. The following members of the Pathways Fellowships Committee are also readyto assist students in determining which prerequisite courses are best at their stage ofcareer exploration, along with possible locations for these classes: Bill Donahue, Claudia Hauer, Susan Kaplan, Barbara Lucero Sand, Margaret Odell, Eric Poppele,and Llyd Wells.

Pathways Fellowships applications are due at the Career Services office by noon onMonday, December 16, 2013. Awards will be announced in January 2014.

Thorne and Braziel/Lynn Scholarships for Pre-medical Study are a subset of thePathways Fellowships program on the Santa Fe campus. These two scholarships areawarded to students so they can take the pre-requisite chemistry classes and labs theywill need for application to allopathic medical schools. The amount of individualThorne scholarships varies, with recent awards ranging from $2,500-$5,000. TheBraziel/Lynn Scholarship is a single $5,000 award. Applications for both scholarshipprograms (available at the Career Services office) require a letter explaining why a student is planning to pursue a career as a physician, along with a budget showing proposed costs for summer classes and living expenses.

Both the Thorne and Braziel/Lynn applications are due at the Career Services office by noon on Monday, December 16, 2013. Santa Fe students may apply for both scholarships.

Another option for getting career experience next summer is an Ariel Internship forwhich you spend two-three months working in a field that interests you as a possiblecareer. Ariel interns have explored careers as diverse as art, family counseling, foreignaffairs, historic preservation, linguistics, mediation, museum and gallery curation,music, naturopathic medicine, non-profit and public administration, organic farming,politics, sustainable architecture, teaching, and many more. The first step in the Arielprocess is to find an established internship or to create an internship for yourself. Bar-bara Lucero Sand, Assistant Director of Career Services and Internship Coordinator,

has resources to help you with either path.Many alumni have also been happy to openspots in their own internship programs orwork with students to craft an individualizedexperience. Once you’ve decided on an in-ternship and have actually applied, it’s time to fill out the ArielInternship application to request up to$3,600 to meet your summer expenses forthe duration of the internship. If you are particularly interested in a bio-medical in-ternship, the award can be up to $4,000.Copies of successful internship applications,interns’ reports on their experiences, and the 2014 application will be available at anAriel Introductory meeting at noon on Tuesday, October 8, in the Junior CommonRoom. Please bring your lunch and join Ms. Lucero Sand and some of this past summer’s interns to learn about the details of the application process and the types ofexperiences you might have, and to pick upthis year’s application.

Ariel Internship applications for the summerof 2014 are due to Career Services by 5 p.m.on Friday, February 21, 2014. Awards will beannounced before Spring Break.

Whether you want to take a prerequisiteclass, study abroad, or try out a career-related job next summer, the college and Career Services are committed to helpingyour dreams about the future become a real-ity. Don’t procrastinate; start thinking aboutthese opportunities today!

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Projects for PeaceFor the seventh consecutive year, the Davis United World College Scholars

Program has invited St. John’s College to submit an application for the Projects forPeace competition. Since 2007, six teams of students from St. John’s College (fourfrom the Santa Fe campus and two from Annapolis) have each won $10,000 to carryout projects they defined as having a direct bearing on establishing a sustainablepeace. The Santa Fe projects have ranged from building a water purification tank andinstalling plumbing in a remote village in Nepal to renovating a building for a commu-nity library (also in Nepal) and bringing together students from various sides of majorpolitical and military conflicts in the Republic of Georgia. All undergraduate studentson both campuses are eligible to propose a project for this competition, but DeanSterling and Dean Kraus must select only one primary project and one alternate to besubmitted to the Davis UWC program.

The application for this competition consists of a two-page statement that detailsthe project (who, what, where, how), including a description of how the student orgroup of students is defining “peace,” their expected outcomes, and prospects forthe future impact of the project, along with a one-page budget of how the $10,000award would be spent (transportation, living expenses, project materials, etc.) All applications in Santa Fe must be submitted to Career Services no later than noon onMonday, Dec. 2, 2013. A committee made up of tutors and staff will consider the proposals and offer suggestions for further work to be done during Winter Break. By the end of January the two Deans will have determined whether there is a primaryand an alternate from among the applications from both campuses and the final applications will be sent to Davis no later than February 10, 2014.

Career Services will present an informational meeting about how to craft a successful Projects for Peace proposal on Tuesday, October 22, 12:15-1:15 p.m. inthe Senior Common Room. More details about Projects for Peace can also be foundat: http://www.davisprojectsforpeace.org.

If students have questions about Projects for Peace, please contact Career Services directly, because any contact between students and the Davis UWC office is strictlyprohibited.

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Elene Gvilia, Bilsana Bibic, and Noam Freshmanreceived a grant from the Davis Projects for Peace

initiative for their project. With the help of TerryManning, these students traveled to the Republic

of Georgia to make a difference in education,health, and politics.

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EVENTSOctober 8 Ariel Internship Introduction PresentationJunior Common Room 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.Bring your lunch as Ms. Barbara Lucero Sand, assistant director of career services and internship coordinator outlines the Ariel Internshipprogram and answers questions. Also hear former Ariel interns speak about their experiences this past summer and share tips on the application process.

October 16 — Town Hall Meeting (pizza will be served)Great Hall 3:15 - 5 p.m.Panel discussion with Pathways Fellowship Committee members who will share the philosophy and details of this new college-supported opportunity for summer academic classes, including pre-requisite coursesfor graduate and professional school and study abroad.

October 22 Projects for Peace PresentationSenior Common Room 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.St. John’s College has once again received an invitation from the DavisUnited World College Scholars Program for any interested undergraduateson our campus to design grassroots “Projects for Peace,” which will takeplace in the summer of 2014. Bring your lunch and find out all about theproposal process, deadlines and receive an example of a successful proposal.

October 23 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, Science Presentation

Senior Common Room 3:15 - 4:30 p.m.Assistant Professor, Sally Pias, Department of Chemistry at NM Tech, willlead a seminar discussion on The Molecular Mind-Body.

October 30 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)Internship Presentation

Fireside Lounge 3 - 4:30 p.m.Brenda L. Montoya, student programs’ coordinator at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), will present internship information and tips to students interested in interning at LANL next summer through our paid Ariel Internship program.

RECRUITING EVENTSOctober 23 New Mexico Tech Graduate Programs

in Science, Socorro, NM, Peterson Student Center Hallway near cafeteria 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.Assistant Professor, Sally Pias, Department of Chemistry at NM Tech will host a table to discuss graduate programs and will follow up with a seminar discussion at 3:15 p.m. on the same day, (see above information).

November 1 SIT Graduate Institute, Brattleboro, VT, Peterson Student Center Hallway 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.Interested in intercultural exchange, running a study abroad program, sustainable community development, or peacebuilding? Come by the tableto learn more about SIT Graduate Institute and their interculturally focusedMA degree programs.

2013 WRITING FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL APPLICATIONS3-Part Workshop SeriesThis series will be presented by Margaret Odell, director of Career Services, with assistance from Alan Zeitlin, tutor and writing archon, andthe student writing assistants. The aim is to look at what makes up a successful statement of purpose for graduate school, internship and jobapplications, and how this kind of writing is different from what studentsdo for SJC essays. Space is limited and there is some reading to do for thefirst session, so students need to sign up at the Career Services office byOctober 22 and pick up the packet of readings.

October 23 Writing for Graduate School ApplicationsSenior Common Room 6-8 p.m.Part 1 is a discussion of the hallmarks of all-purpose good writing. We willalso consider examples of Statements of Purpose from former SJC graduate school applicants.

November 6 Writing for Graduate School and Internship ApplicationsSenior Common Room 6-8 p.m.Students will share their own writing for current applications or help critique the writing of other workshop members. This will be a safe, supportive environment to learn about what it takes to switch from writinga seminar essay to stating what you plan to do in graduate school or at aproposed internship. We will explore the importance of allowing time formultiple revisions and review by a variety of impartial readers.

November 13 Writing Beyond the SJC Seminar Essay Senior Common Room 6-8 p.m.This final meeting will give students an opportunity to try other forms ofnon-academic writing, such as cover letters for jobs or statements of educational philosophy. We will also tie up any questions remaining fromthe first two sessions and spend some time identifying and discussing the hallmarks of good writing.

If students have questions about this workshop series, contact MargaretOdell directly at extension 6067 or modell@sjcsf.edu.

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Rescheduled from Oct. 2

Disclaimer:The St. John’s College Career Services office produces Odyssey Bound as a service to St. John’s College students andcommunity members for their career development and educational and life planning. Any jobs or other opportunities listedherein do not indicate an endorsement or recommendation from St. John’s College or the Career Services office. Studentsand individuals from the St. John’s College community are responsible for all necessary precautions when interviewing foror accepting these positions or awards. They are also responsible for checking the credentials and integrity of all employ-ers or organizations.

St. John’s College and the Career Services office assume no liability for acts or omissions by third parties or for materialsupplied by them. The St. John’s College Career Services office is not responsible for anything that happens at a given jobsite. The presence of an employment listing in Odyssey Bound does not guarantee any given employer’s compliance withlegal behavior. If a student or individual experiences discrimination or sexual harassment on the job or in a job interview,he or she is encouraged to call the Department of Fair Employment in the state in which the violation occurred. CareerServices makes every effort to publish the most current information, but unforeseen publishing problems may render someevents obsolete. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause the reader.

CONTACT:Career Services 505-984-6066

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Email: careerservices@sjcsf.edu

Office located in the basement of Weigle Hall, Room 13

Office Hours:Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

or by appointment

Career Services Staff:Margaret Odell

Director

Barbara Lucero Sand Assistant Director and Internship Coordinator

Lise Lookman Administrative Assistant

Allen MatsikaPublication Editor

Asmin SitaulaResearch Assistant

Melissa Latham-StevensArt Director

Career Services Office

ENDNOTESWe’re on Facebook! Look us up – www.facebook.com/sjcsfcareerservices — and stay updated onimportant dates and opportunities.

Check us out online!www.stjohnscollege.edu/admin/SF/career_newsletter.shtml or in the AgoraResource Library