Interning Through Coronavirus

Becoming an intern at Floating Island International was no placeholder but a pivotal influence in my environmental future

Catching my first ever bass in Fish Fry Lake brings home that harvesting is an essential part of water quality because it removes phosphorus from the water

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​By Louiza Wise
When I first heard about Northeastern University and the co-op (extended internship) program, one of the things I was most excited about was the idea of doing a global co-op or internship. Experience and global impact are two of the main pillars of Northeastern and that sold me immediately on the school. I had nothing else planned out at the time: not my major, not my concentrations or even any idea of what I kind of career I wanted, but one thing I knew was that in the fall of 2020, I was going abroad.

Or so I thought. After my plans of travel halfway across the world to intern at an innovative water tech company in Nairobi, Kenya were disrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic, I started to think that whatever internship I got this semester would just be a placeholder. 

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