DRYDEN, N.Y., Aug. 25 -- Tompkins Cortland Community College issued the following news release:
Our students have great answers to the age-old start-of-school question of "How did you spend your summer?"
Stephen Hirschel is an adult student studying Computer Information Systems. After working 20 hours per week as an intern for Shift Capital during the spring semester, the company was so impressed they brought him on full-time over the summer.
"My bosses have given me a lot of encouragement to incorporate the skills I am learning in my degree program into my internship work, and I was even able to merge an important task with my CIS213 final project," said Hirschel. "They needed their entire old website backed up before they shut it down,...