Internship in Ethanol

Hmm, I just made a big batch of chocolate chip cookies, and they all turned out flat. I thought they just didn't have enough flour, so I added some more - didn't solve the problem. Suggestions anyone??

I thought today we could cover some more ground on internships available for this summer. Its getting to be the time of year when winter is dragging on too long, and it feels like summer will never be here. But in fact, its slowly warming (hopefully) - and soon we'll be out there interning away. I have been blogging about ethanol lately, so I found a few internships available at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) - the premier ethanol corporation in the United States. They are looking for engineers, accountants, economists and computer scientists - so if you have any of those skills, this might be a good place to investigate. Additionally, if you are a senior and an intern, you get an automatic interview at the end of the summer for a job at the company. They seem very committed to taking employees from their intern program, so if you are interested in environmental engineering as a career, or biofuels and ethanol (which may be a smart career to choose at this point) - this could be a good choice for you. Check out: http://www.admworld.com/naen/careers/crengineering.asp

I did a little research on ADM, if this sort of thing interests you. ADM began as a midwestern company which served as the middleman between farmers producing grain (largely corn) and companies creating corn-products, such as cereals. It became powerful by the 1970s. CEO Dwane Andreas was one of the most generous CEOs in recent history, and gave large sums of money particularly to help the political campaigns of certain politicians. Later, when corn prices fell as a result of new governmental policies, ADM was instrumental in influencing the government to impose tariffs on imported sugar (these tariffs are still in place). They did this in order to make their new product, high fructose corn syrup (now an American staple) competitive with sugar. They have also used this same lobbying power to sway government action regarding ethanol. Anyways, it is clearly an ambitious and interesting company. The above information came from this article, "Go Green, Go Yellow" written by Tom Philpott in December of 2006. To view the article, please see: http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/12/06/ADM/



Above is a picture of part of an ADM factory taken from this article.


Well, moving on. Another intermship folks might be interested in- in fact it looks pretty interesting to me, is the "Energy Sustainability and Administration Intern" at the Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP). (See: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/util_join_our_team.jhtml;jsessionid=EQYCEFT1FDPCKAKRGWDSELQBKE0YIISW)

Looks like you get paid $13-15/hour to consult the company on its energy sustainability issues. Might be worth looking into, especially if you live near Waterbury, MA - the hometown of HBSP. The application is not officially due until the beginning of May - so this might serve as that much-needed backup for summer plans. Anyways, its getting dark and I am going to head out to Thai food with some friends. I hope that everyone is having a good weekend!

Emily