Category: Professional Development and The Job Search
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HGSE Path Changers: Exploring New Careers
There are so many career paths that HGSE students pursue, some of which they learned about through their programs. In this blog, students share how HGSE helped them learn about and explore career paths that they may not have considered pursuing before the program. Michele Vick What were you doing prior to attending HGSE? I was teaching English…
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Student Internships Part 2
HGSE opens so many doors, including the opportunity to intern at a variety of organizations. In this blog post, students share their internship experience and how it has shaped their time at HGSE. Jenny Portillo Tell us about your internship. I am an equity intern with MAEC, Inc. (formerly the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium). MAEC works…
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Student Internships Part 1
HGSE opens so many doors, including the opportunity to intern at a variety of organizations. In this blog post, students share their internship experience and how it has shaped their time at HGSE. Emily Dawson Tell us about your internship. I am interning as a curriculum developer at a virtual reality tutoring startup, LearnSesh. My primary…
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So, You’re About to Present at Your First Harvard Conference…
When I first got to HGSE, I didn’t think I’d be qualified enough to speak at a Harvard conference, let alone three. That’s exactly how I started out my spring semester at HGSE, and how I’ll be ending it. The first of the three conferences I was accepted to speak at was the Alumni of…
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Make You Do A Double Take
Have you ever felt three hundred sets of eyes on you at once? It feels both exhilarating and terrifying simultaneously. Askwith Hall was filled to capacity with members of the Harvard community gathered for one of the most anticipated events of the school year- Double Take: Stories That Make You Think Twice. Three hundred sets…
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What Happens After HGSE?
It’s hard to believe that there are only three weeks left of the semester…and just over a month until graduation! For full-time Master’s students, our time at HGSE is coming to a close, which means it is time to kick the job search into high gear. Luckily for all students at HGSE, there are…
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HackED
One of the reasons I was so excited to join the Technology, Innovation and Education (TIE) cohort at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) was the opportunity to “innovate” – whatever that meant. I arrived on campus from a profession where uniformity and standards are, understandably, of the utmost importance in order to make…
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