{"id":2147,"date":"2017-11-27T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T19:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2017-11-27T16:18:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T20:18:59","slug":"a-sweet-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/a-sweet-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sweet Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melissa Weiss studied Nutrition and Food science at UVM. Last summer, she got introduced to Farr Farms in Richmond, Vermont through the Food Systems Internship Program. As the Production Manager Assistant and Social Media Intern, Melissa started helping with milk production and was soon researching and developing new products like gelato! \u00a0\u201cThe company was still small and growing, so there was a lot of room to explore different avenues of what it took to build a business.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong>The internship proved instrumental in preparing Melissa for new position as the Nutrition Intern at Savorfull<\/a>.\u00a0 The chance to \u201cwear many different hats and hold a lot of responsibilities\u201d prepared her to thrive in this entrepreneurial food-based business.<\/p>\n

Melissa was at Farr Farms full-time for four months, and though it was a somewhat difficult transition at first, in that time, she went from being a newbie to a competent and capable farmhand. \u201cInternships,\u201d Melissa concludes, \u201care extremely important\u2026 If you can do something you like in your field, it\u2019ll go a long way in preparing you for success down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

68% of UVM students engage in internships to further their studies and gain invaluable hands-on experience. The Food Systems Internships Program is one way to get connected. \u00a0Discover many more internships in Handshake \u2013 both in Vermont<\/a> and across the nation<\/a> – then drop by The Hub to take your next step!\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melissa Weiss studied Nutrition and Food science at UVM. Last summer, she got introduced to Farr Farms in Richmond, Vermont through the Food Systems Internship Program. As the Production Manager Assistant and Social Media Intern, Melissa started helping with milk production and was soon researching and developing new products like gelato! \u00a0\u201cThe company was still … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “A Sweet Internship”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"career","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/author\/career\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}