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Henry Shull ’13 thought he would follow in his parents’ footsteps. Shull’s mother and father are lawyers who went into public service, so he assumed he would go to law school after college. The more he talked with his Housemates, however, the more he realized that he didn’t really know what he wanted to do. That’s when he showed up on the doorstep of Harvard’s Office of Career Services (OCS). “I met with Nancy Saunders [director of undergraduate career programming and advising],” Shull said. “She helped me broaden my outlook and consider careers in journalism, government, and public policy. Now I’m applying for summer internships at publications like Time and the Washington Monthly, at think tanks like the Pew Research Center and the Council on Foreign Relations, and at government offices like the U.N. Office at Nairobi and the U.S. Agency for International Development.” As undergraduates like Shull turn their thoughts to...