Fletcher’s fabulous students and what they’re up to.
Like most first-year Fletcher students, Samira had a jam-packed fall semester. Also like most first-year students, she’s become very Fletcher-savvy very quickly, and is starting her second semester with a lot of contextual and institutional knowledge.
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We next check in with first-year MALD Victoria, who had a busy first semester and “typical” Fletcher winter break involving lots of travel, as well as Scuba certification. Like I said, typical.
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Today we’ll turn to our first-year student bloggers, who are busily diving into their second Fletcher semesters after surviving (and thriving during!) the fall. Mohit has gotten involved in a lot of annual Fletcher events, and has found a number of outlets for his entrepreneurial interests.
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Wrapping up our first-year student updates is Manaved, who recaps his experience on the recent New York City career trip, one of the major annual events sponsored by the Office of Career Services.
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Today we check in with Gioia, now entering her final (!) Fletcher semester. She had a typically jam-packed fall, with lots of updates for blog readers.
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It’s time to check in with our group of student bloggers, starting today with 2nd-year MALD Lisa. As is usually the case with 2nd-year students, it feels like she just got here yesterday, and it’s hard to imagine she’s now entering her final Fletcher semester. As you’ll see, she remains busy as ever.
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One of the fun things about administering the Fletcher Educational Enrichment Fund – a small grant program designed to provide support to students’ independent research and experiential learning pursuits – is getting a close-up look at all the interesting things our students are up to. The fund has supported all manner of excursions to professional and scholarly conferences, field-based data collection and other research, and competitions and simulations. Until recently, though, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a documentary film as the end result of a project proposal.
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A busy last week at Fletcher ended with an important annual event. Though this year’s class of 2nd-year “Januarians” – Fletcher parlance for the smaller cohort of students who enroll in the spring semester – won’t officially graduate until February, their commencement ceremonies are held during the last weeks of the fall semester, when everyone is still around to join them in celebration.
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Fletcher typically has a prominent military portion of our community, with a significant number of students who are veterans or active-duty service members, in addition to several faculty whose work focuses on security policy and military affairs. One of their important functions is to act as liaisons for non-military students interested in learning more about various areas of the armed forces. For those of us with no direct experience or connection, the military can seem complicated and a bit intimidating.
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Not too long ago I wrote about the proliferation of cybersecurity-related curriculum and activity at Fletcher, including a brief mention of the annual Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge hosted by The Atlantic Council. Fletcher teams have taken part in the competition for three or four years now. They’ve consistently returned invigorated by the experience, and on occasion a bit awed by the level of technical and policy expertise to which they were exposed at the event. It’s struck me as a great learning experience for the growing contingent of Fletcher students interested in cyber issues.
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