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Vast rewards of non-profits

By Myha Truong

Published: August 30 2009 19:02 | Last updated: August 30 2009 19:02

When I meet up with my family and friends whom I have not seen since starting my internship in June, I am invariably asked the question: “What aspects of your schooling have you been able to apply to your internship?” Not wanting to bore them with a nuanced answer, my standby generic response is “almost everything”.

To date, my work as a strategy consultant with the Multilingual Community Interpreter Services (MCIS) based in Toronto, has required me to use chunks of teachings from 75 per cent of the courses that have made up the first year of my MBA programme at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

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