Posts published in “From Cubicles to Campus”

Hey everyone! My name is Jeylan. I’m a 4/4 Industrial and Systems Engineering major stacking an accelerated master’s, and a former co-op dropout!

Note: So sorry, I am a systems engineer and my brain works in logic and systems, so I wanted to share the wealth with everyone anyway. 

There’s a certain kind of confidence you gain after a co-op that’s hard to explain until you see it. It’s not loud.

For my summer interns, co-op students heading into fall rotations, and even my full-timers right now, we’ve all had a bad experience.

Before starting my co-op, I had seen all kinds of leaders — from people who ran meetings by yelling the loudest, to people who barely raised their voice but somehow still commanded the room.

Happy holidays, happy new year, and I hope you’re all having a restful break. Most of campus is coming back from a lifestyle of waking up at 12 p.m.,

If you’re a co-op kid who spent the last few months refreshing LinkedIn like it was the Canvas gradebook after a brutal midterm…congratulations!

There’s a lot college teaches you — how to survive on three hours of sleep, how to cry in the library without anyone noticing, and maybe even some engineering.

My life lately has been feeling like a reality TV show, so I thought what better than this week to bring you an article about how co-op is a reality tv show.