Friday, January 24, 2014

Greetings from San Francisco!

 Former DVB setter Alissa Santa-Maria '13 and Lucia Pohlman '15



I’ve been working at my new job for 2 weeks now, and it has been fabulous. One great thing about the D-Plan is that you can avoid the winter in NH! I’ve been enjoying wearing dresses (without tights!) and lounging outside my apartment building basking in the sun. Other than the great weather, my internship has proven to be be better than imagined. The company I work for, Real NewEnergy, is a small sustainability development firm that consults, develops, and commercializes sustainable technologies. It is a super small company so I spend a lot of time with the CEO and get to manage my own project. They have a net-zero impact greenhouse configuration, GoodSpheres Greenhouses, and I’m trying to find a location, customers, and funding to build a greenhouse. One cool idea I have is to crowdfund for the greenhouse in sustainable Eco-Villages in California. As an environmental studies major at Dartmouth, I’m interested in sustainable solutions for urban areas. I’m so lucky to be experiencing the type of work I want to do post-graduation in my Junior year of university! 

Also, there is a great side note to where I work. The company owners are Dutch and many of their projects involve information sharing between entrepreneurs and businesses from the Netherlands. As such, they have worked out this special relationship with the Dutch Consulate here in SF and are their in-house-entreprenuer. Moreover, I work in the Dutch Consulate! I have to have a super security pass, and am friends with the SF Consul General and it all feels very official. Also, the Dutch Consulate doesn’t have too shabby of an office! I work on the 31st floor of One Montgomery Tower in downtown SF. They also have really cool parties where everyone speaks Dutch, and I just walk around and pretend that I can understand. Those are pretty funny.

In terms of Dartmouth, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to capitalize on the time I have here in SF and the spring and summer terms. One great thing about attending Dartmouth is that I can capitalize on Volleyball (training, mindset, practicing, goal-setting), as well as my academic and career oriented interests (sustainability). I’ve been having major cases of FOMO (fear of missing out for all the non-high schoolers that might read this blog) seeing pictures and updates from my teammates in Hanover, but am so grateful for the opportunity to explore my career interests as a D1 student-athlete. I’m so excited to get back in the gym in the spring and work through blood, sweat and tears in order to prepare for my final season in the fall of 2014!

Thanks for reading!

-Lucia

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