Jessica Smith: Intern Spotlight
If you were to say a year ago that I would be introducing over 70 new freshmen to campus, I would’ve never believed you. My name is Jessica Smith, I am from Charlotte, NC, and I am a sophomore here at UMD majoring in Agricultural Resource Economics and Agricultural Business Management at the Institute of Applied Agriculture. For my internship, I was the Outreach and Recruitment Intern at the
Institute of Applied Agriculture in College Park for the summer.
As the Outreach and Recruitment Intern, one of my primary tasks was to plan, prepare, and execute four new student orientations. With the program growing to become so large, and being a typical introvert, I gained much-needed communication skills by giving all the new freshman tours of campus and getting to tell them all the interesting, fun, and useful resources that I’ve found helpful in my past year at the
university.