2024-25 Academic Year Internship Blogs

During the 2024-2025 academic year, Cornell students completed internships for credit in a variety of industries where they explored what life after Cornell might hold for them. Read along to learn about their insights, delights, and a few disappointments. Cornell's Berry Career Institute helps find and place students in internships, and our Ingenuity in Action program assists students with funding for essentials to make internship experiences possible.

Berry Career Institute   Ingenuity in Action

Charlie Robinson - Physical Therapy at Veterans Memorial Hospital

Week One in the Rehab Department

Sophie Stumbo: Pediatric Orthopedic Research at Children’s Hospital Colorado

Peyton Carlson: Wildlife Veterinary Medicine at the African Conservation Experience

Charlotte McHughs: Summer Research at the University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus

RIP Cells: Died 07/09/25

Week 5: Flying Solo

Week 4: More and More Plates

Week 3: Building Bigger Pictures

Week 2: Some Sage Advice

Anna Dewitt: Estuarine Ecology Field Research at the Baruch Marine Field Laboratory

Orion Pevehouse: Hidden Histories and Allyship at the African American Museum of Iowa

Alyza Koppes: Observation and Patient Care at FYZICAL Therapy & Balance Centers

My First Week at Fyzical!

Isaac vanWestrienen: Physical Therapy for Professional Runners

Week 7: Rhythm

Week 6: Back to Basics

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Week 4: Halfway There

Week 3: This Is, in fact, the Dream

Week 2: Building a Routine

Celina Schertz: Juvenile Legal Advocacy at Howes Law Firm

Tyler Lockaby: Senator Charles Grassley’s State Office