A DAY IN THE LIFE: What’s it like to sit in the boardroom of a top financial company or to have dinner in Los Angeles with well-known writers, producers, and directors? Through two immersion programs organized by the Career Development Office—one based in New York’s financial district, the other in LA—students learned first-hand what it’s like to work in their chosen industry and to live and commute in two major cities.
PUNCHING IN: This year, over 1,700 students hold campus jobs. With around 400 kinds of positions in 110 offices and departments, the jobs are as unique as the students who hold them. “We try to find a good fit for each student,” says Aaron Miller, temporary acting coordinator of student employment. “The goal is to tie the campus job into the larger picture of their post-Vassar career...
QUIDDITCH…Mount your broomsticks! Every Sunday and Wednesday, Vassar transforms into Hogwarts Academy when students, toting brooms and a volleyball quaffle, take to Joss Beach for a friendly game of quidditch. The sport, which was created by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter series, has taken off at college campuses nationwide. Vassar’s team, the Butterbeer Brewers, already has close to 30 members.
AND THE OSCAR FOR BEST PICTURE GOES TO… When five Vassar filmmakers set out to make a movie in 24 hours, they had no idea that their work would leave such a lasting impression. For Apple’s 2007 annual Insomnia Film Festival, Ben Rutkowski ’09, Brian Paccione ’09, Lauren Rubin ’10, Woodrow Travers ’09, and Sebastian Weinberg ’09 headed down to New York City in October to write, cast, edit, and score their film, Hobopus—all in a single day.
THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: In baseball and in politics, Tyler Bellstrom ’09 has never been a fan of sitting on the bench. A political science major, Bellstrom has spent the year immersed in the political primaries and upcoming presidential election. Over the winter break, he headed to New Hampshire to spend a week campaigning for Barack Obama. “We campaigned for six days and probably got about four or five hours of sleep,”...
101 THINGS TO DO: At Vassar, there’s always something to do. Cafés and restaurants, theaters and shopping, parks and historic sites (to name just a few) are a short walk or ride from campus. Check out a few favorites at the Vassar Student Association’s website, “101 Things To Do”