Bringing Ingenuity into Graphic Design
I had never realized how transforming ten weeks could be.
Smriti Neupane '26 is interning with JLL Chicago Capital Markets in Chicago, Illinois. Her graphic design internship involves designing and developing materials to support business development at the organization.
I had never realized how transforming ten weeks could be.
I love Chicago! Vibrant neighborhoods, colorful murals, music and dance, chats on the bus, flying trains, and festivals—Chicago has it all.
I don’t like elevators. But when I took an elevator to the 25th floor on my first day of internship, the elevator was the last thing I...
Hometown: Sindhupalchok, Nepal
Major(s): Digital Communications and Multi/media (individualized major) and Business Analytics
Two years ago, I packed my life in two suitcases and came to the US from a small village in Nepal. Along the way, I have fallen in love and fallen out of love with many things: statistics, cats, HIMYM, the NY Times, and more. But art has always been my constant, on paper then and digital now. Besides art, I like adventures in nature, like rafting, paragliding, bungee jumping, and jumping and running around.
Ten years from now, I will be sitting in my work-desk looking over the terrains and mountains of Pokhara, with book covers that I designed, children movies that I animated, and the artworks that I created over the years. I will be glad that I got and took the opportunity to intern at JLL as a graphic design intern back in college, because that was the beginning of it all—a push that I needed to jumpstart my career in something that I was passionate about.
