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Personal Anecdote: College Credits through Racing

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How You Can Get Into The Racing Industry: My Story of Getting College Credits to Race

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The speaker shares his personal experience of gaining six college credits from Penn State by racing his own car all summer as part of an internship. This was a requirement for his Corporate Communications degree, and he describes it as a 'fully legit' internship.

Goal: Illustrate a real-world example of unconventional opportunity creation for academic credit.

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Facebook helps a lot. We'll continue the story of how I managed to get college credit for racing my own car all summer. On the Escalade in Street Car Takeover. I received six credits from Penn State for this internship. This was serious. Quite seriously. Moreover, it was a requirement for obtaining a diploma. That's why I had to do an internship. And to put it all into perspective, the most important lesson you younger guys will learn is that you don't have to search for jobs online to make sure there's a job available. Sometimes it doesn't even exist. But if you ask someone, you'll find out, or they'll create something for you if they like you. That's how the world works. So, Street Car Takeover is what I've been doing all last year. That's what really opened the door to this world for me even more, compared to where I was before. But, uh, I

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