While many St. Olaf students went to their Interim class expecting to take notes, Kate Fridley '14 showed up to her Interim class each day without a notebook, ready to put up stage lights and play her clarinet. She was one of 17 students in the advanced Producing Theater Interim course that merged musical and theatrical projects into an academic setting.

Christopher Brunelle and his students recently performed Ovid's epic Metamorphoses in a marathon public reading. The 15 hours it took the group to complete the 12,000 lines of text were punctuated by a variety of styles, including rap.

In the first weeks of last year’s Career Network for Oles, Caleb Harrison '12 feared the worst — that no one would respond to his profile highlighting interests in development, international law, and serving abroad. "I was panicking. My peers were receiving responses from parents and alumni and I had yet to hear a thing," Harrison says.

Senior Tim Knutson's experience in China — along with the resources available in the St. Olaf Center for Experiential Learning — helped him land a full-time job half a year before graduation.

Students in Associate Professor of Exercise Science Chris Daymont's new Exercise Prescription class became personal fitness trainers this semester, working with community members to develop workout plans and track progress.

Lizzie Gelle '12 parlayed her volunteer experience and diverse course work at St. Olaf into a job offer from Best Buy Corporation six months before graduation.

With video games topping many a wish list this holiday season — and the latest Call of Duty game racking up an eye-popping $1 billion in sales in just two weeks — Ben Houge '96 shares what it's like to compose the sound behind this popular form of entertainment.

Charlie Raskob '12 used the teamwork skills he's gained as a member of the St. Olaf men's hockey program — along with the resources in the Center for Experiential Learning and a summer internship — to land a job with Target Corporation six months before graduation.

A walk into Regents Hall of Natural and Mathematical Sciences these days might put you in the middle of a playground. A molecular playground, that is. Just inside the building’s main entrance, pedestrians can walk through a hallway where their motion causes a variety of projected molecular structures to spin on the wall and present multiple views.