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<\/a>Though the trip was short, it was packed with useful knowledge, new places, and helpful information for the students.\u00a0 The day of the trip was spent traveling and exploring the new terrain.\u00a0 A beautiful hotel on the Pacific Ocean acted as home for travelers and provided them with scenic sunrises each morning before taking off for the day.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the group traveled to Silicon Valley.\u00a0 Here, they visited Shutterfly, Mei Wu Acoustics, Google, Red Rock Coffee, and Knack.\u00a0 Of these, the first four businesses employed a Wabash graduate who showed us around and asked questions.\u00a0 While most of these revolved around technology, not usually a strong suit at Wabash, students gained a sense of where a liberal arts degree could take them.\u00a0 The individuals that make up the student group came from various backgrounds with regard to their majors\/minors and activities on campus.<\/p>\n
A long day on Thursday did not stop students from hoping out of bed on Friday morning, just in time to see the sunrise over the Pacific as they grabbed breakfast at the hotel.\u00a0 With Director Scott \u201cRazorback\u201d Crawford at the helm, the group set off for downtown San Francisco.\u00a0 Awaiting them in the The City by The Bay were a group of exciting businesses, many focusing on technology.\u00a0 These included Indiegogo, Twitter, Wikimedia, Aon Consulting, and Calypso Technologies.\u00a0 While only two of these businesses had Wabash men working for them, the employees at all were quite welcoming and willing to offer knowledge and advice.<\/p>\n
Friday night was one of my favorite parts of the trip, and because of this, I\u2019ll spend more time reflecting on it. We arrived at dinner after a long day of immersion in different businesses.\u00a0 Our dinner was scheduled at Lolinda, a Portuguese restaurant in the Mission District.\u00a0 The food and drinks were phenomenal, but the real treat came with the people we conversed with over dinner.\u00a0 Approximately 20 alumni and 15 guests from our destinations from our two days of discovery joined us at the table for drinks and dinner.<\/p>\n
For the most part, students sat with individuals whose companies they were intrigued by sometime during the previous two days. Jordan Johnson (Physics Major) sat by an alumnus who works at Mei Wei Acoustics; James Kennedy (Art\/Physics Major) sat by the graphics designer at Knack, as so on.\u00a0 I was fortunate enough to sit by John Fields, the owner of a venture capital firm specializing in financing water and energy efficiency programs.\u00a0 I\u2019m extremely interesting in investing, and having some background knowledge on venture capital through my father, John and had talked for most of the night.\u00a0 I\u2019ve stayed in touch, and have a call with John on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 I also spent a great deal of time talking to one of the founders of Profusa, a startup company with a product that helps read blood sugar levels without pricking ones finger for those with diabetes.\u00a0 We discussed the business process they\u2019re going through as a startup company.\u00a0 It was exciting to see the development that goes into starting up the business side after a great product has already been developed.<\/p>\n Overall, the trip was a great experience.\u00a0 In talking with individuals from all kinds of businesses in San Francisco, students were able to learn outside of the classroom, and certainly learned more than they do inside the classroom.\u00a0 I\u2019d recommend the trip to others in a heartbeat, and will carry memories, knowledge, and connections from the trip for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Ben Bradshaw ’15 Before heading back to Wabash and delving back into classes, 12 fortunate students had the opportunity to embark on a Profession Immersion Experience to San Francisco.\u00a0 Career Services […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/02\/BBresize1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>