Agronomy Ambassador Blog

Every fall semester the College of Agriculture hosts a career fair here at Purdue. These career fairs offer a great opportunity for students of the College of Ag to explore careers with companies, find full time employment, and find summer internships for underclassmen. Each fall semester around 200 companies come to Purdue that specialize in…

The Purdue College of Agriculture career fair always comes up fast after school starts. Purdue advisors and professors do a great job in making sure you have your resume polished especially in introduction or major-specific classes. The career fair always has hundreds of companies and professionals that are very welcoming and easy to talk to.…

It was just like it was yesterday I was in my BGR group seeing campus for the first time and meeting the agronomy department staff as a freshman.  Never thinking that almost three years could go that fast, along the way I have been able to experience some things in these 3 short years. Some…

For my summer internship, I had a great experience working at Drago Indiana. My internship was in sales and marketing. I had the whole state of Indiana and part of Illinois to travel to farmers and ag retail locations. I loved communicating with agriculturalists and farmers each day! In August, Drago Indiana hosted two field…

Why join the Agronomy Club? This was a question I got a lot as we stood at our booth for the Ag Council Ice Cream Social. As the night went on my answer varied in different ways but the most consistent was the way you gain so many friendships. I also talked about how many…

SASES National Officers meet once a month for most of the year, but starting in August, before the October meeting, we meet once a week. We get our tours finalized, line up all our speakers, confirm schools who are coming, and plan all the other events students participate in. It is a wonderful opportunity to…

This summer I had the opportunity to work at a greenhouse in Westfield Indiana called Perennials Plus. I stumbled upon this position through a simple conversation with one of my friends dads who said he could help me find a summer job. As I did research I found that working at a greenhouse would be…