During the Maymester program, students listen in on the planning behind national campaigns, talk with executive suite leaders, and bounce ideas off creative strategists. Through the two-week experience, either in New York City or the Bay Area, they get to glimpse firsthand the convergence and disruption in media, communication and web technologies — and imagine their possible place in it.

Expertise matters. It matters a great deal, and I think it's going to matter in the newsrooms of the future.
—Sam Sifton, Food and Cooking Editor, The New York Times

When you first get hired, you're hired for your potential.
—Marissa Fuhrer, Global Accounts & Partnerships, Dropbox