So externship is when a student can get class credit for the work that they do, and there's certain types of things that will qualify that like working for a government organization, clerking for a judge, or working in different public interest opportunities, like a DA's office, or a PD's office. So there's lots of opportunities for them to build their resume, which is really important for us in career services.
Between my first semester and my second semester as a 1L. I went to career services and asked them if there was a place that I can kind of intern for those couple of weeks while we had off and they recommended me getting involved with the Georgia Legal Services Program here in Macon. And also during the spring semester, the Career Services post a lot of jobs on the website "Bear Board." So this summer after my first year of law school, I got the privilege to clerk with the Honorable Judge Yvette Miller at the court of appeals of Georgia. Helping her deciding which way she wanted to rule on direct appeals and helping her kind of work through oral arguments.
There are plenty of opportunities around Bibb County in the Macon area for externships and internships, whether it's with a private law firm or with the government. All of my friends, everybody that I know has had some kind of internship or externship around Bibb County.
For students who are thinking about joining the externship program, I'd say, to look at as a learning opportunity. This is not a moment where you pick what you're going to do for the absolute rest of your life. It's a time where you make a serious commitment for 14 weeks to join an office and take on the kind of work that that office specializes in. See if that lines up with what you think your priorities are and your areas of interests are.
