Internships
Real-World Experiences to Enhance Your Resume
Internships not only enrich your academic journey, but also allow you to immerse yourself in the day-to-day life of your field prior to entering the workforce. These short-term work experiences help you identify the careers and industries that best fit your distinctive talents and goals, while making you a more competitive applicant in the job market. You can even submit an application to earn academic credit for your internship experience.
Finding and Securing Opportunities
You can intern during the academic year or during your winter or summer breaks. Our Center for Career and Professional Development will help you discover and secure these positions, guiding you through the internship search, application, and interview processes, and facilitating connections with F&M alumni, parents and friends of the College for potential opportunities. Through F&M, you’ll also have access to the True Blue Network, a career network platform exclusive to the F&M community. Here, you can connect with alumni and parents who have volunteered to support student F&M student success beyond the classroom.
Student Spotlight
“My conduct and diligence on the job is a marketable skill cherished anywhere, giving
me an advantage in the world of post-graduation job-hunting.”
Richie Dockery '26 spent his summer interning as a research assistant and archivist
at Lancaster’s Historic Rock Ford. The estate’s grounds include the mansion of Gen.
Edward Hand, who served as adjutant general of the Continental Army under George Washington.
“As the estate’s newest research assistant and archivist, I’m entrusted with sifting
through its Revolutionary War documents, categorizing and organizing them, and overhauling
the mansion-turned-museum’s entirely pre-digital archives,” Dockery said. “Although
I’ve flexed my research muscle in the classroom, archival work is a new labyrinth
of challenges. My diligence and conduct on the job are not only valuable for the quality
of the research, but they are also marketable skills cherished everywhere, giving
me an advantage in the post-graduation job market.”
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“Interning has opened doors for me that I never thought of before.”
Mia Feola ’27 has always felt a calling to work with animals. This summer, she took
a vital and illuminating step toward transforming that ambition into a fulfilling
career. Feola, an animal behavior studies major, interned at the Penn Vet Working
Dog Center (PVWDC), an organization dedicated to training working dogs to assist humans
in various capacities.
“The Career Center helped me succeed in applying for this internship by supporting
me in every step of the process,” she said.
Feola said she’s excited to continue exploring the field of working dogs as a potential
career.
“Interning for the PVWDC has opened doors for me to explore the world of working dogs
and explore this new sector in dog training that I never thought of before,” she said.
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“This practical experience I’ve gained has proven to be crucial.”
For William Gerber ’26, an internship for the President Judge of the Lancaster County
Court of Common Pleas reinforced his decision to pursue a future in law.
“It’s one thing to learn about judicial reasoning in the classroom, but another entirely
to see it applied in real time and in real cases,” he said. “This practical experience
I’ve gained – by analyzing case patterns, drafting legal documents and understanding
court operations – has proven to be crucial in aiding my decision to apply to law
school.”
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Summer Experience Funds
Your advisers can also direct you to generous donor funding that can help offset the financial burden of an unpaid or underpaid summer experience. These funds empower you to seek a wide variety of opportunities, giving you flexibility to choose internships that typically are unpaid or minimally paid.
See How Diplomats Are Exploring Their Passions
September 2, 2025
Internship Provides Compelling Evidence for a Future in Law
For William Gerber ’26, an internship for the President Judge of the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas reinforced his decision to pursue a future in law. “This practical experience I’ve gained has proven to be crucial in aiding my decision to apply to law school,” he said.
August 15, 2025
Exploring Ancient Worlds to Shape Her Future
Navigating career exploration with courage and curiosity — that’s the Diplomat way. This summer, Katherine Briggs ’26 dove into her zeal for classical archaeology by interning at the Near Eastern Collections, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
August 11, 2025
Connecting Classroom Theory to Behavioral Reality in a Yale Laboratory
Noah Katzer ’26 has added a new skill and experience to an already impressive list of accomplishments: he spent part of his summer interning at the Emotion Health and Psychophysiology Lab at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. “I've learned new research methods and gained insight into new subsections of psychology,” he says.