Summer 2020

Looking back from this time last year, if you would have told me that we would have to wear masks everywhere in public, can not have gatherings of more than 50 people, and we would be forced to understand which businesses were “essential” or not, I would have thought you were crazy. Many internships and jobs were canceled or virtual during the summer of 2020 due to COVID-19. Luckily, most agronomy students were still able to keep their original internships.

I personally was able to still work for Ceres Solutions as a Crop Health Technician. I visited Ceres Solutions booth at the Purdue Fall Career Fair and was interviewed and hired within a week. Unlike most of my friends in other departments, I went to work everyday instead of sitting in front of a computer screen. I was able to still get hands on experience, ride along with sales managers, and learn from agronomists this summer in the midst of the pandemic. I am so thankful for the people I got to meet and work with over the summer. 

Additionally, I worked with my dad on our family farm. The “rona” couldn’t stop us from tilling, planting, hauling grain, and IRRIGATING during the dry summer.