Blog #1: How I Got My Internship
By Nathan Gollogly

I have always considered marketing as a discipline I wanted to pursue, perhaps even as a career, so I believed that getting as much experience outside the classroom was equally as important as learning the concepts. Along with a friend, I approached my marketing professor in my first semester as a sophomore and the two of us expressed our desire to resurrect the Babson Marketing Association. We believed that a marketing club would provide a perfect medium through which we could gain a more practical and hands on experience in the field of marketing. True enough, it was through the BMA that I heard about the opportunity to have an internship in marketing for a startup organization. The company was an online literary journal, taking the “American Story” and making it available to both domestic and international audiences by translating social issues and stories of American life into a variety of different languages. My position was to do market research and help develop a way to attract readership. Applying for and securing the position was straightforward enough, but what I found was far more important than the actual application, was the desire I had from the beginning to pursue marketing. It was a combination of knowing what I wanted to do as well as being proactive in my environment that allowed me to find the type of internship I desired.

Once I knew that this opportunity of doing marketing for a startup was what I wanted to do, what helped me secure the position was using the resources that I had available. What I discovered was that professors are willing to help out even beyond class room material. Realizing this made it easier for me to approach my professors and ask for recommendations and advice. After being recommended by my marketing professor, I secured an interview, which led to an offer for the position that I readily accepted. By utilizing the resources available to me, I am now in the position to learn as much as I can in the upcoming months. This summer I plan to make use of this opportunity to its upmost potential, seeking to gain as much from this internship as possible, and test the concepts that I have learned so far from my Babson education.