About the San Francisco Field Program What is it really like to shift from the academic classroom to a "hands-on" work experience in a "real-world" company? For over 20 years, students on this program have made that transition by:   Contributing to their companies by working on actual business projects   Evaluating their career goals and desires   Studying entrepreneurship directly from successful entrepreneurs. Reality Check for Students Students receive a first-hand sense of a work environment, its responsibilities, challenges and opportunities. This helps them to:   Further define their career interests and objectives,   Build their self-confidence by interviewing for the internship and relating to business people and various types of challenges on the job. Company Internships Students intern at a wide variety of companies. Students' interests and capabilities in accounting, finance, marketing / advertising, project management and computer science are matched with companies' needs. Principia College students have earned an excellent reputation; many interns receive job offers to return to their sponsor companies after graduation. A represented sample of these companies is:   COMPANIES INTERNSHIPS   Bank of America International banking   Boone financial Advisors Financial planning   Brightmail Technologies Programming & marketing   CivicBank Corporate lending   Carlson Marketing Group Marketing analysis   Callan Associates Investment services   Deloitte Consulting Human resources management   Dreyers Grand Ice Cream Public relations / marketing   Foote Cone & Belding Advertising   Hornblower Dining Yachts Dining Yachts Accounting   Macys Systems management   Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center Small business consulting   Salesforce.com Accounting   Salomon Smith Barney Investment services   Tomra Pacific Recycling Network Data base management   TBWA Chiat / Day Advertising   U.S. Trust Investment services Studying Entrepreneurship Fridays are reserved for meetings with Bay Area entrepreneurs and tours of their companies. Most of these men and women have lived amazing lives in pursuit of their dreams. Students appreciate their sense of vision, and risk-taking, perseverance, and abnegation, often after several unsuccessful attempts to follow their ambitions. Mr. Flatley holds a class on entrepreneurship each Friday morning. Students share ideas from the reading assignments and work in teams to prepare a business plan for an entrepreneurial start-up company. This team project is submitted at the end of the term. Why San Francisco? Why not New York, Atlanta, Seattle or Chicago? Yes, we do get the occasional question: "OK, great program but why in San Francisco?" Perhaps the questioner has never visited San Francisco (which, if they had, they probably wouldn't be asking the question), but a few basic facts help them understand:   Creativity abounds. While the Bay Area is one of major economic hotbeds of the technology age, it also spawns thousands of entrepreneurial ventures, from dessert shops, restoration hardware stores, Zen greeting card companies to fortune cookie factories, all unique in their own artistic way.   No snow during the winter.   A truly international city with amazing ethnic diversity.   Easy public transportation and accessibility to wonderful cultural opportunities.   Friendly people, a general openness to new ideas and a "can-do" business attitude.   No snow during the winter (redundancy intentional).   One of the most beautiful urban settings in the world. Living in San Francisco Students reside in an apartment building located in the heart of the city. They are expected to live independently by managing their time and budgets by doing their own shopping, cooking, and cleaning (!!), much as they would in their first apartment.   Mr. Flatley and his wife Debbie (Resident Counselor) also live in the same building throughout the term. Eligibility Students majoring in either business administration, economics and / or computer science get this opportunity to live, work and study in the most dynamic business environment in the world. Most are juniors and seniors who have achieved a good GPA, completed course prerequisites, and have demonstrated the "whole man" concept on campus, namely spiritual, athletic, and social as well as academic qualities.

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