Pranika Kalluru

If you’re a college student right now, you’ve probably seen a headline suggesting that your major is either a golden ticket or a dead end. The truth is more interesting, and more useful. No degree is risk-free, and very few are hopeless. What matters is truly understanding which kind of risk your degree carries and what you can do about it while you’re still in school. The Big Picture: A Tougher Market, But the Degree Still Pays Let’s start with the numbers. According to the Federal Reserve...

By Mera Makar When I first started the Workforce Accelerator, I began my internship working in web design. I was able to gain experience working on websites, thinking about user experience, and applying my technical and creative skills to real projects. As my experience continued, my responsibilities expanded beyond web design. Most recently, I have been working on creating hackathon videos for high school students in Peru. This experience has allowed me to work on something different while...

# 20 Hours to Minutes: What I Built at JGM This Summer By Sebastian Giraldo Going into my summer internship at JGM Innovation, I expected to spend most of my time thinking like a data scientist: cleaning data, running models, looking for patterns. What I actually spent the summer doing was building tools that real people at JGM would open up and use every single day, and figuring out, project by project, what it actually takes for something you build to be trusted enough to run on. My first...