Through Kalamazoo College's K-Plan, students are provided several opportunities for experiential learning. Biology and economics major, Markus Boos took maximum advantage of the K-Plan by completing three internships.

Boos interned for Kalamazoo College professor Dr. Carolyn Newton at Mount Desert in Maine, examining the protein in the blood of dogfish shark. After his sophomore year Markus worked with Dr. Paul Sutherland, another Kalamazoo professor, maintaining the Lillian Anderson Arboretum in Kalamazoo and designing its website. Last summer Markus worked in the department of immunology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and based his senior individualized project on this research experience.

"My internships placed me in completely new environments, away from Kalamazoo College and Michigan," Boos said. "I learned skills which will always be valuable to me, and similarly, they gave me a taste of life in the 'real' world."

After graduation, Markus said he has a position arranged with Anderson Consulting as an entry-level analyst.