Bread, Butter and Resumé Boost 4: Grad Student going on Freshman Year

Last but never the least, we have Sydney Dinenberg from this year’s IEDP cohort to share her experience of working as Resident Advisor Graduate Associate (RAGA). Xiong, in his post about his journey to IEDP, briefly mentioned that RAGA was one of the biggest reasons he decided to come to IEDP over other options he had. Good number of IEDPers join the RAGA team every … Continue reading Bread, Butter and Resumé Boost 4: Grad Student going on Freshman Year

Bread, Butter and Resumé Boost 3: The most colorful basement you will ever be in

Your dearest is back! Many of you know me as the person behind this IEDP admissions blog (and if you read Ale’s post, you also learned that I’m behind the Instagram account of the program as well!) and here I am to introduce you to another world of mine at Penn. I work at Family Resource Center as an Education Fellow whose responsibilities include managing … Continue reading Bread, Butter and Resumé Boost 3: The most colorful basement you will ever be in

Bread, Butter and Resumé Boost 2: Rocking the two worlds of RAship and TAship

Continuing the fabulous discussion on on-campus jobs initiated by Ale (tbh, one of my favorite posts on this blog!), today we are going to peak into another cohort mate of ours, Ian’s experience of working on campus while enrolled as a full-time student at IEDP. Ian is working as a Research Assistant at App Inventor Academy and Teaching Assistant for EDEN 510 Educational Evaluation for Innovation. … Continue reading Bread, Butter and Resumé Boost 2: Rocking the two worlds of RAship and TAship

Bread, Butter and Resumé Boost 1: IEDP GAship

In another life, I would’ve worked on Broadway as a stage manager. Or as an air traffic controller. Or as a dog show planner. Essentially, anything with a walkie talkie earpiece and a clip board. My GA experience is like that, but with emails, and a team of friends. I am part of a team of 7 IEDP GAs. Each of us has a specific … Continue reading Bread, Butter and Resumé Boost 1: IEDP GAship