Hello Bellarmine lovers! I hope you’ve been enjoying your summer. I can’t believe it’s half over already! Before you know it, Bellarmine’s halls will be teeming with eager young faces ready to learn…more realistically, Cafe Ogle will be teeming with hungry students with Flex Dollars to burn. (I honestly miss Cafe Ogle already.)
I’m coming to you today, blog friends, to share the specific details of the Disney College Program aka the adventure I’m about to embark on.
The Disney College Program is essentially an internship with the Walt Disney Company. As a part of the College Program a student can work at Walt Disney World in Florida or Disneyland in California. I chose to apply to work at Disney World because it’s AWESOME. Besides the obvious benefits of having an internship with Disney, a large draw for the program is that students are paid. It’s not much, I’ll grant you, but the do meet and often exceed Florida’s minimum wage. Which is more than can be said for many internships with large companies.
To be a part of the Disney College Program, you have to currently be enrolled in college. This means that students who are about to graduate are eligible for the program. Which is pretty nifty.
For specific details about the program that I won’t get into here, visit the WDW College Program site. I will say that if you’re currently a college student and looking for an interesting internship experience to take part in, either when you’re in school or when you graduate, check it out.
I’ll be arriving at Disney on August 18th to begin my Disney College Program experience. The role I was offered and accepted was Photopass Photographer. I’ll find out which park I’ll be working in when I arrive at Disney.
Lucky for me, Disney houses all the CP participants and allows you to choose your roommate (as long as they have the same arrival date as you). My roommate is fellow Bellarmine grad and Bellarmine Radio compatriot Whitney Cecil!
If you have other questions about the program please feel free to leave me a comment. Or if you’d like to follow me on my program journey, here’s the link to my blog www.natfishwdwcp.wordpress.com.
I’m incredibly excited to get started! I’ll be at Disney until January 7th, at which point I’ll hopefully be even MORE employable.
Let me know if you’ll be at Disney so I can take your picture!
So exciting to hear someone else as excited as me about the internship. I stumbled upon your blog through Google and I’m arriving at Disney a week before you for a lifeguarding role. -Hanah
Well that’s an embarrassing type-o. I spelled my own name wrong. =/
Oh yay! Thanks for reading
I hope you enjoy life guarding. I bet it would be neat!
Hopefully I’ll see you around!