Hello From NYC Y’all!

Elisa Scudder '14 at a Knicks game

The Dartmouth D-Plan, which lets us do everything from study abroads in France to volunteering in Africa, has one sneakly little term that will shock your system. It’s called the Junior Winter Off-Term Internship. Or as I like to call it, OMG It’s The Real World. Many of the things I’ve taken for granted at Dartmouth - like hot water that always works and fully cooked meals prepared for me with no clean-up necessary - suddenly don’t exist. It’s quite a different living experience being alone in NYC, but I’m loving it so far.
 

I’m currently working as a marketing intern with Animoto - a Dartmouth founded online video-creation company. Three out of the four founders were Dartmouth grads, and I recently found out that one is married to a Dartmouth Volleyball Alum! Working with some amazing grads and the four other Dartmouth interns I’m with has been an amazing experience. Working a 9-5 is so much different than the constant hustle of class-gym-class-gym that I’m used it, and man is it exhausting. But the experience of working at an office (a pretty cool one in fact) is teaching me so much about what I want for my future - which is the whole point of the off term, to learn.

While I’m enjoying working in the city, the real fun part is living here. I’m living near the NYU campus, so I’m always seeing college aged kids and live in a really cool area. There are also about 25 other Dartmouth ‘14s up here as well, so its fun to get dinners in the city and explore around. Last weekend I was able to go see the new 9-11 Memorial which was beautiful, and I’ve also been exploring around Central Park.

It’s crazy to think it’s already week 5 and I’ve only got a short time left to live it up in NYC. I’m looking forward to really experiencing everything I can in these last few weeks, and then reuniting with everyone in Hanover. And believe me, after living in the real world, I’m ready to go back to being a college student, even if its just for a little longer.

-Scudder ‘14