On a Wednesday morning last month, Sean Pi ’12 ran breathlessly into his 10 a.m. French class dressed in a suit and tie, carrying a suitcase and his French books. Just five minutes earlier, he had paid a cab driver $300 for a ride from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, where his red-eye flight from California had landed hours before.

With its move to a new office space at 36 University Place from its former accommodations on Nassau Street, the Office of Career Services set out to form closer connections with students.

Graduating just eight months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with the economy in recession, Brian Danielewicz ’02 applied for 28 jobs through the Office of Career Services. “I landed four interviews and got zero job offers,” he recalled. Now an associate at US Renewables Group, a private equity fund, Danielewicz explained that he was able to use his personal network to locate additional opportunities and eventually secure his first job.