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By: Feyza Tunc | 3 min read

Feyza Tunc (she/her) is a third-year Health Sciences student who shares her insights from working in occupational health and safety at Markham Stouffville Hospital. She highlights her experience organizing mask fittings, creating physical demands analysis (PDA) reports and shadowing doctors during orthopedic and laparoscopic surgeries.

By: Alison Chase | 5 min read

Lucas DeMello (he/him) is a Biomedical Engineering student in his 3B term. He has participated in a variety of unique opportunities through co-op, from designing scoreboards to helping alleviate world hunger with machine learning. Lucas also shares how he copes with living away from home.

By: Lauren Ballard | 4.5 min read

Megan MacGregor (she/her) is a third-year Health Sciences student. She discusses her role at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre and gives advice on asking your co-op supervisors for help when you’ve hit a roadblock.

By: Lauren Ballard | 4.5 min read

Cathy Le (she/her) is a fourth-year Global Business and Digital Arts (GBDA) student. She explains her approach to standing out when it comes to co-op applications and how she deals with rejection.

By: Lauren Ballard | 7 min read

Jason Amri (he/him) is a fifth-year Computer Science and Business student. He discusses how he started a social venture called 3cycle and his experience having a co-op term in Dubai.

By: Lauren Ballard | 5 min read

Bhagya Chandani (he/him) is a Master of Management Sciences student. He speaks about how he approached co-op when he already had more than three years of work experience across various industries.

By: Lauren Ballard | 4 min read

Qamar Mobayed (she/her) is a third-year Pharmacy student who explains how she dealt with gaps in her knowledge during her co-op term, how to land a job outside of WaterlooWorks and how to create a lasting impact in your workplace.

By: Aadya Dixit | 3 min read

Jaspreet Kaur Gill (she/her) is a third-year BSc. Honours Health Sciences (minor in Medical Physiology, Health Research specialization) student. She highlights her experience presenting and travelling to the American Society of Clinical Oncology – Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in San Francisco, CA, one of the key prostate cancer events globally.

By: Lauren Ballard | 8 min read

Raymond Li is a fourth-year Computer Science student. He speaks about his experience working for PlayStation, Amazon and Tesla and how he landed a full-time job at Meta before graduating.