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News From '07 Philosophy Graduates

Javier Brolo

After graduating from Carleton I came back to Guatemala, my home country. I enrolled at the International Politics and Law Masters program at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. I worked as a logistics coordinator at an NGO called CIRMA in Antigua Guatemala for a while. Now, I am working as a junior consultant in foreign affairs at ASIES, a local research institute. Philosophy has been a great training tool for the study of politics. At it's most basic form, philosophy is just an understanding of how some part of the universe is organized. However, it is the starting point for any action. In that sense, everyone engages in philosophy at some degree, but the depth reached in a philosophy mayor has been very useful for integrating different ways of understanding the world into common goals. 

Cayce Hill

I have returned to sunny southern California for the summer where I am currently working as an Account Executive Assistant at a Mortgage Loan Firm. Come mid-September, I will escape to the south of France, where I will spend nearly half the time working than I am currently working. Actually, less than half. I will be working about 28 hours less and making about the same. Minus heinous taxes, of course, but I'll have health care, which is more than a lot of people my age can say. Come visit me in the Alps if you'd like!

John Morse

I'll be finishing up an MA in Humanities at the University of Chicago in August 2008, and since I only have a little writing left to do I'll be working full-time from now on. Might be doing an internship with the Illinois State Legislature, but probably some less-exciting work for a bank. After that, I'll probably be going back to school for law or to pursue a PhD in Philosophy. Hopefully I'll have decided which by the time I actually, you know, go.

Logan Quinsey

I will be obtaining my Masters in Philosophy from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, where I will be studying contemporary continental philosophy with an emphasis on existential phenomenology. I will also have to opportunity to study eastern philosophies such as Madyamika Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, as well as comparative philosophy, to which I am eagerly looking forward. After obtaining my masters I plan to move to Madison WI to live with my girlfriend and our cat where I am hoping to study somatics.

News From '06 Philosophy Graduates

Mary Cloutier

I will be at the University of Minnesota Walter Mondale School
of Law starting Fall 2007. I anticipate receiving my J.D. in 2010.

Margeaux Gagliano

I am running away to the land of Aristotle and
Plato after graduation. In Corfu, Greece, I will be the director of
development for a non-profit organization, the Silva Project
(www.thesilvaproject.org.). I will be designing and implementing
programs, with a slew of other Carleton students and friends, that
will help use the natural environment to enhance the lives of
people with disabilities.

Greg Haman

I am planning on traveling South America for two months the summer after graduation. I have a round trip ticket from Chicago to Santiago, Chile. Beyond this, I have few plans, though I hope Bolivia and Peru will be involved. I have applied for the Peace Corps to teach science in Africa, but the cumbersome, lumbering gears of the US government have yet to manufacture a contract, signing of which insures acceptance and informs me of which country in which I will spend the next two years.

Des Kidney
After graduation I am going to California to visit family and friends for a
while. When I return home to DC I plan to work, soullessly and
profitably, as a paralegal for a large DC law firm. Eventually, I
plans to return to academia in the form of grad school for English.

Alisa Sanchez

After graduating I was chillaxing in California during the summer until I headed to Bogotá, Colombia in July on a Fulbright scholarship. I'll be in Bogotá for a year taking a few classes at Universidad de los Andes,doing a research project on Colombia's Constitution and theory of rights, and volunteering at a human rights organization. (Update: Alisa is now in the Ph.D program in Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley)

Andrew Weiner

After graduation I knew that I wanted to devote my life to the betterment of humanity. So naturally I was thrilled to accept a job on Wall Street where I toiled tirelessly alongside like-minded idealists to lower the cost of capital for society.  In fact, we succeeded in making credit so cheap that we caused the subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent global recession.  My bad. I retired from finance after 2 years, but when I discovered that my social security checks wouldn't start arriving for several decades, I was forced to seek post-retirement employment.  Thus, I am spending my quiet retirement years defending the great state of Illinois as a member of the Army National Guard.