Robert Williams is a four-year bachelor?s/master?s computer science student in his junior year at Stevens. The internship at Goldman Sachs was his second internship, his first being at a Boeing-owned company in Berkeley Heights, NJ, the summer after his freshman year.

At Goldman Sachs, Robert worked as a programmer in the company?s mortgage loans division and is looking to explore companies like Google and Amazon for future internship opportunities. ?Internships are very important, and the main reason why I chose to come to Stevens,? he said. ?To not take advantage of an internship as a student here at Stevens would be a big disservice to yourself. It?s true that it is challenging to apply for the first one, but after that, the information and confidence and networks you?ve gained in the process and the way your résumé builds, it becomes easier to get another one. You?ve got to get over the first hurdle, and there?s a lot of support here to do that, no question.? 

His internship at Goldman Sachs, he said, was one of the highlights of his college career, and working on Wall Street is a goal he?s had since high school. He feels Stevens has allowed him to differentiate himself from the pack and to take risks. Outside school, the internships, and career networking, Robert seizes opportunities of a different kind ? creative writing. He wrote and published a novel, American Nightmare, a thriller he composed over the summer of his first internship. Robert is also a member of Phi Beta Lambda (a business organization), the Math Club, and the Stevens Christian Fellowship, all while maintaining positions as webmaster and tutor in the computer science program.