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Bilal Mustafa ’19 first became acquainted with the subject of finance at Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, where he was enrolled for two years before transferring to Hamilton College. At Hamilton, his interest in the market blossomed, as he realized he much preferred learning about the economy outside a formal education structure. This summer, Mustafa is putting his financial knowledge to the test, interning at global markets and financial advisory firm StormHarbour.

As part of Performing Women, Caitlin McQuade ’18 read the work of an artist affiliated with The Orchard Project,  a non-profit arts incubator in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

For the past two years Rachel Alatalo ’18 has maintained a personal blog as a way to practice writing and acquire a personal voice. “When I came out as bisexual a year ago, it was a natural progression to start including LGBTIQ issues when I wrote about my life,” said Alatalo, a creative writing major.

Louis Dzialo ’19 secured himself a summer internship that precisely fits with his long-held love of art history and his academic and career goals — he’s working at The Frick Collection in New York City.

In January, after encouragement from a friend, Sarah Robertson ’19 joined the Hamilton College Real Estate Club, and discovered her interest in the mechanics of buying and selling properties. She is interning at Wexler and Kaufman, PLLC, which specializes in representing buyers and sellers in commercial and residential real estate transactions, the precise field Robertson hoped to investigate this summer.

As a neuroscience major at Hamilton, Erin Donahue ’18 has stuck mostly to a pre-health curriculum. This summer, Donahue is participating in the Summer Research Immersion program at Binghamton University, where she is gaining exposure to the research field.

Years from now, after she completes medical school in the U.S, Risper Kirui ’19 hopes to return to Kenya and practice medicine in her home country. This summer, she is a student intern at a hospital in Kenya.

At Hamilton Minh To ’19 has devoured opportunities to further her passion for computer science. Now she is immersed in an intensive, full-stack web and mobile application development program at Horizons School of Technology.

For Nicole Lyons ’18, comedy has always been an integral part of life. Now she's having some fun in an internship with Viacom and Comedy Central Records and Comedy Central Radio.

Serena Smith ’18 found an internship that fit her interests precisely: She worked with the nonprofit Global Language Network in Washington, D.C., which is dedicated to using “language as a tool to help fix our world.”