Graduate Programs, Internships, interconnections in the Program and trace them out, you can understand how all knowledge and inquiry are intertwined in creating the common human perspective and experience.’ This understanding of the program as completely cohesive allows the St. John’s degree to be applicable to all different fields, as long as one finds the common thread and defends it; and, as she says, ‘By the time you graduate, you will have gone through a very important analysis and synthesis of who you are, and you will have enough powerful experiences and captivating questions to understand on a very intimate level the enterprise of St. John’s. With this much behind you, and more significantly in you, you will be able to present St. John’s as a cohesive, meaningful and relevant whole from any viewpoint.’ While her long-term career goals are completely undefined for now, which is ‘exactly as [she] wants it to be’, Ms. Richterova has a good sense of the kind of activity she wants to be engaged in for the future. Her motivation is to find communities that she can be meaningful within. For her, ‘It doesn’t matter if it’s a community of elderly people in a temple in India, or a community of scholars researching the blueprint of brain activity in the United States, or an educational community where I teach Mathematics in Bolivia. What matters is that my interactions in those communities are meaningful, both to me and to others. In finding my inspiration, I’d like to inspire others to look for their own muses anywhere and in any way they can.’ For the time being, however, Ms. Richterova has decided to join the University of Oxford next year to study further what life and the human experience is, and if a replication and simulation of one or both is possible. She does this partly from intrinsic interest, and partly for the thrills of joining an intellectual community that seeks meaning in ways that are completely new to her. She hopes, once again, to rediscover herself in a program with which she currently has no visible connections. As she says, ‘I call myself the lifelong experimentalist, one who prefers to ascertain by finding out.’ Karolina Richterova applied for post-graduate MSc/DPhil programs in Experimental Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science, Social Cognition, and Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and Imperial College.
Graduate Programs, Internships and Other Opportunities Accounting Master of Accounting Program at William & Mary’s Mason School of Business – The school is reaching out to St. John’s College, having had a good track record of St. John’s graduates go through their program successfully over the last few years! If any seniors are considering careers in the business world but are unsure of where to start, William & Mary provides a roadmap and skill training, including work in complex financial instruments and analyses of current issues (such as International Financial Reporting Standards). Seniors without any business classes can finish the entire program in a year, by taking prerequisite bootcamps over the summer. Williams & Mary is located in Williamsburg, VA. Application deadline: Rolling deadline For more information visit: http://mason.wm.edu or contact Associate Admissions Director, Martha Howard, at martha.howard@mason.wm.edu
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