Mecklenburg Conservation Internship @SUNY Oneonta

karajanhra
Mon, 19 May 2008 20:08:22 +0000

squee! This is crazy! You know they only accepted 2 people last year (one girl and one boy), and I assume it was the same this year (what with money being tight and all), and those two people are HERE (again, assuming they didn’t take more than last year)! I got the job too, and I can assure you that the BFS (Biological Field Station), while somewhat rustic, is full of great people, and Otsego Lake is beautiful (and GIANT. I know because I took a class there last summer, and it took us from 20 to 30 minutes by motorboat to get to most of our sites).

I don’t know about this year (because they didn’t have an interview), but the competition last year was pretty fierce - about 20-22 people came to the group interview for the 2 slots (I had only turned 16 two days before the interview, so I didn’t have a prayer). The professors and us were all crammed into a little room made to fit 10 people, and I heard one of them say that they’d have to do something different next (this) year.