Alumni Update: Claire Schneider '04

After graduating in 2004, and a brief stint consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton in DC and PACT Cambodia in Phnom Penh – I did what many Dartmouth government majors do, I went to law school.  I definitely didn't know how to "think like a lawyer" yet when I began, but I know Dartmouth helped prepare me to think critically and write analytically. (I still remember Professor Press sawing up the first paper I wrote in his class.)  Eventually, I made my way from litigation to transactional practice, but I still rely on careful and logical writing and analysis every day. Currently, I am Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to legal drafting, I write policies, opinions and recommendations – every word counts.  Although back in a college setting, I'm a long way from my time at Dartmouth; nevertheless, I still feel close to the skills I learned, and the intellectual curiosity that was fostered, at Dartmouth.