"Joining Ms. Ma's 2024 Career Camp was one of the best decisions I made over the summer. Even as a high schooler, Career Camp exposed me to the diverse opportunities outside of high school and taught me skills such as cold emailing, professional networking, and LinkedIn profile optimization. Using these skills I learnt at Career Camp, I was able to find numerous opportunities and start my own organization with over 700 driven students. If you are looking for a personalized guide and a head start on exploring your professional career, Career Camp is the way to go!" (January 2025)

"Working with Connie was an amazing experience! As a young college student trying to navigate the job search, I often felt overwhelmed and unsure of my next steps. Connie’s coaching gave me not only practical advice but also a new level of confidence in myself and my career path. She always provided thoughtful insights, real-world advice, and strategies that made everything feel so much more manageable. Her support made a huge difference — from helping me build my professional presence to offering encouragement when things felt uncertain. Thanks to Connie, I feel so much better equipped to move forward in my career journey with clarity and excitement!" (April 2025)

"I took Career Camp with Ms. Ma in the summer of 2022, and I am currently studying computer science at Princeton University. I had a great experience with this program. I really appreciated how Ms. Ma took a macro level approach to getting us to understand what we wanted to make of our own career exploration journey. She gave us actionable ways where we can find out whether the subject areas and topics we find conceptually interesting are also the ones that we find interesting in practice. So one way she did this was by inviting a panel of speakers to tell us about the day-to-day of what their jobs look like, and I found this to be extremely eye-opening. 

I really appreciated the opportunity to conduct an informational interview with one of Ms. Ma's connections, an energy consultant, because sustainable energy is a field that I am possibly interested in pursuing. In my informational interview, I got to practice a lot of the skills that we were working on during the program, and learn a lot more. Overall, I found working with Ms. Ma to be extremely beneficial, and an experience that I strongly recommend to high school students, particularly juniors and seniors." (Summer 2022)

"The hardest part of going to college for me was learning how to be independent (mom isn’t doing laundry for me anymore!) and expanding my network in a foreign country from scratch! Working with Ms. Ma through Career Camp has helped me immensely in recognizing this early and taking tangible steps to make sure I was prepared. The connections one can make in college are boundless. However, you also need to know how to find and utilize them. Having a heads-up from Career Camp about the importance of cold-emailing professors/researchers of interest (key point is what YOU ARE interested in) and how to do so has helped me quickly find my research home early in college.

My most memorable exercise in the Career Camp course was learning how to conduct an informational interview, which helped me learn more about research and what it takes to be an MD-PhD. Meeting with Dr. Hufnagel has been very fruitful as he has given me a ton of personal advice and how to achieve that goal if I wish to pursue a similar path. He is another wise and kind mentor that I can comfortably reach out to in the future! I heavily recommend working with Ms. Ma because it is a no-pressure, hands-on way to learn vital career skills!” (Summer 2022)