The Eagle Intern Fellowship provides financial support of up to $4,800 to Boston College undergraduates who are on financial aid who obtain internships with organizations that are not able to provide a salary. By eliminating financial barriers, this program provides an opportunity for you to explore your career interests and experience the world of work.


Overview

The Eagle Intern Fellowship is a monetary stipend to support the unpaid internships of students on financial aid through Boston College. Stipends will vary in size depending on each students' financial need (as determined by the Boston College Financial Aid office) and the total hours you will work at your internship.

Eagle Intern Fellows also receive:

  • Individualized career coaching throughout your internship to help you make the most of your internship and connect your experience to future career goals
  • An opportunity to present about your experience to the Boston College community

By participating in the Eagle Intern Fellowship program, you will be able to:

  • Identify at least one skill you hope to incorporate into your career paths that aligns with the skills employers are seeking in recent college graduates.
  • Connect the skills, interests and values you are gaining at Boston College to specific opportunities of interest.
  • Articulate how you will become a person for others in your career field of interest.
  • Articulate 1-3 next steps in your career discernment and planning.

IMPORTANT - 54% of the students who applied for grants for the summer of 2024 received one. You can meet with one of our career coaches to craft a backup plan, in case your internship is not funded.


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Impact

The Impact of Eagle Intern Fellowship

Past recipients tell stories of the experiences they were able to have thanks to EIF. 

Sydney Constantino, MCAS '23

Fablevision

Ahura Shadfar, MCAS '25

Office of Charlie Baker

Fran Hodgins, CSOM '24

Float - Stockholm, Sweden

I couldn’t have done this internship without the Eagle Intern Fellowship. What [the Career Center does] for us is amazing. I really couldn’t have stayed here in Boston and built the connections I have now without their support.
Former Eagle Intern Fellow Matthew Alvarado '20, Interned with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay; offered full-time position after graduation

Past Recipients

Connect with EIF Tradition

Meet a few of our past fellowship recipients who interned across the country and globe in industries ranging from medical research to federal government to magazine publishing. 

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Karissa Mokoban MCAS '20

2018 Eagle Fellow

Photo of Karissa Mokoban MCAS '20

I applied to this office because I wanted exposure to a lot of sectors.

Karissa Mokoban spent the summer of 2018 interning for Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. Her experience was detailed in BC Magazine. The following is an excerpt from the magazine. 

BC Magazine

 

"In July, Mokoban spent about 40 percent of her time on spreadsheets, logging bank statements, time sheets, and other financial data. A few times a week, Mokoban researched staff in the Attorney General’s healthcare division one floor below, and then emails them asking to learn more about their work. She also attends the office’s many programs for its 40 undergraduate interns, which include training sessions for deposition taking, writing motions, and investigating cybercrimes. The interns also attend trials, “meet-the-attorneys” networking events, and moot court sessions."

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Matthew Yan, MCAS '21

2018 Eagle Fellow

Photo of Matthew Yan, MCAS '21

It’s humbling to fail almost every day...I’m learning that you have to be willing to devote years to a project that may amount to nothing. But science is failure.

Matthew Yan spent the summer of 2018 at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Lab in Houston, Texas. His experience was detailed in BC Magazine. The following is an excerpt from the magazine. 

BC Magazine

"As the lab’s only intern, Yan enjoys a one-on-one apprenticeship with Jiyuan Zhang. Before Yan runs any experiment, Zhang spends hours demonstrating each step—how to manipulate a rotovapor, how to analyze CRISPR, how to measure mass spectronomy. Once he’s learned a method, Yan is often free to experiment unsupervised. At Friday afternoon lab meetings, he shares his findings from the week and his goals for the next week via PowerPoint, receiving feedback from Xin Guan, the lab’s other post-doc, and the principal investigator."

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Jaime Martinez, MCAS ’20

2018 Eagle Fellow

Photo of Jaime  Martinez, MCAS ’20

I’m trying to absorb as many perspectives here as possible...on days with nonstop action, I get very excited to come back here after I graduate.

Jamie Martinez spent the summer of 2018 interning at the office of Democratic U.S. Representative Filemón Vela Jr. His experience was detailed in BC Magazine. The following is an excerpt from the magazine. 

BC Magazine

"Martinez spends his 8:30 to 5:30 workdays in this bustling office on Independence Avenue. He conducts research on pending bills; translates constituents’ letters and social media posts from Spanish to English; stocks office supplies; ships surplus books from the Library of Congress to underserved schools in the 34th; attends and writes briefings on caucus meetings and special interest lectures (topics have ranged from human trafficking to Canadian tariffs on American lumber); and pinballs across the cavernous, marble-floored Cannon Building to pop into its many 10-foot-high doors and ask other U.S. Representatives to sign various petitions his Congressman authors. Once a week Martinez gives visiting Texans up-to-two-hour tours of the U.S. Capitol."

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Tia Rashke, MCAS ’19

2018 Eagle Fellow

Photo of Tia Rashke, MCAS ’19

[The internship] confirmed my desire to be part of an environment that’s either related to or within the Catholic Church, and that [faith] doesn’t have to be separate from your work.

Tia Rashke spent the summer of 2018 interning at the Southern African Bishops’ Conference Parliamentary Liaison Office in Cape Town, South Africa after studying abroad during the spring semester in Cape Town. Her experience was detailed in BC Magazine. The following is an excerpt from the magazine. 

BC Magazine

"Rashke, who chose Cape Town for her junior year abroad because she felt it had 'more to offer in terms of different experiences and cultures than a university in Europe,' says the added internship has helped to give her a sense of Cape Town that goes beyond what many short-term visitors are able to obtain...At a practical level, she says, her internship has given her more workplace independence than she’s used to, which she’s found 'a little disorientating at times but also exciting.'"

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Daniel Schantz, MCAS ’20

2018 Eagle Fellow

Photo of Daniel  Schantz, MCAS ’20

I love music more than anything. But you hear horror stories about the industry. I wanted to have an inside look before making it a career.

Daniel Schantz spent the summer of 2018 interning at Reliz Magazine in New York, NY. His experience was detailed in BC Magazine. The following is an excerpt from the magazine. 

BC Magazine

"So far, Relix has only strengthened Schantz’s desire to get into the business. Two weeks earlier, eight staff members and nine interns drove in vans to the four-day Bonnaroo music festival in Manchester, Tennessee, and camped together in tents. Each day Schantz worked three four-hour shifts selling subscriptions to some of the 80,000 festival-goers from a booth (and saw 17 concerts in between)."

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