ON CAMPUS . . . AND OFF
An advanced biology class farms drosophila (fruit flies) for a Stanford University project seeking to cure
diabetes. The “StanEx” partnership, and affiliated internship, is just one way to turn classroom learning
into an off-campus adventure. You can also work alongside U.S. congressional members in Washington,
DC; work with special-needs individuals at a community residence in Ireland; learn the farms and fields of
rural Vermont’s Mountain School; score a summer job at a New York fashion house; or conduct fieldwork
at an Italian archaeological site.
Brain of
a fruit fly
larva
“
I think of it like a full plate of food . . . Exeter gives you all these amazing things and
sometimes they give you a second serving you weren’t planning for. And I don’t think
that is a bad thing. It opens you to new things; it opens you to going outside your
comfort zone . . . to doing things you wouldn’t have done before. Exeter challenges you.”
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