Jenny Morris: Living in a Tent and Loving it

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Jenny Morris and one of her campers

FULTON, MO (12/19/2013)(readMedia)-- Internships are becoming an important piece of the educational package for college students, and this past summer several William Woods University students experienced internships that could lead to fulfilling careers.

Jenny Morris, a senior from Overland Park, Kan., spent two months living in a tent at a summer camp in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. The psychology major (and social work minor) worked at Ramapo for Children, a camp in Rhinebeck, N.Y., for youngsters and teens with special needs. She ran the Teen Leadership program and worked with cognitively impaired young men, 16 to 22.

"Some of the campers had been coming there for 11 years, and the camp was the highlight of their year," she said. "The campers were all so different, and some of the autistic ones were non-verbal. I had never worked with special needs children before and felt I was out of my league at first, but I was given the opportunity to learn."

Morris graduated in Dec. 14 and plans to attend graduate school to study industrial organizational psychology because she is interested in leadership and motivation and personalities.