Julia McDonough ’20 had an ambitious education plan: A bachelor’s degree; five years of related internship experience, high school to college; and involvement in major-related extracurricular activities. . That’s right, high school to college. Julia’s first internship, at Corning Optics in Keene, was in engineering. She was a tool and die maker apprentice and CNC operator, and she had just turned 18, the required age to run equipment at the company. . “Getting all of those things under my belt … that was big for me,” says Julia, now a sales associate for the Robert E. Morris Company, a leading machine tool.