{"id":11629,"date":"2012-03-21T10:40:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=11629"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:12:09","slug":"wright-state-student-top-intern-at-northwestern-mutual-office-full-of-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/03\/21\/wright-state-student-top-intern-at-northwestern-mutual-office-full-of-raiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State student top intern at Northwestern Mutual, office full of Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Photo<\/a>

(L-R) Current Wright State student Randy Boll and alumni Andy Platt work in an office full of Raiders at Northwestern Mutual.<\/p><\/div>\n

Randy Boll has a history with Northwestern Mutual. When he was 19 years old, Boll was diagnosed with cancer. He would have been uninsurable for the rest of his life if his parents hadn\u2019t already purchased an insurance policy for him from that very company.<\/p>\n

Now Boll is selling policies to families like his, as Northwestern Mutual\u2019s top intern in the country. Boll is in his senior year at Wright State University, majoring in political science.<\/p>\n

Boll\u2019s supervisor, Andy Platt, is an alumnus of Wright State\u2019s Raj Soin College of Business. Platt is the college unit director for Northwestern Mutual\u2019s Miami Valley Group and one of the top five college unit directors in the company. He was the one who encouraged Boll to transfer to Wright State.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe talked so highly of it,\u201d said Boll, \u201cthat I was extremely biased towards Wright State.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, Boll and Platt\u2019s office is full of Raiders. Many of the interns and full-time staff are either students or alumni of Wright State. Platt said he likes to recruit Wright State students because they are ready to work.<\/p>\n

Boll is definitely one of those driven students. His daily routine is a whirlwind of activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy day-to-day last semester was get into the office at about 7 a.m., make calls, work on continuing education,\u201d he said. \u201cI was taking 20 credit hours and I was the junior varsity tennis coach at Alter High School. I fit in meetings before or after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interns like Boll are one of the reasons that the Northwestern Mutual internship program has been in the top 10 internship programs in the country for the last 15 years. It is the only program to have made the list every single year.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot even NASA has done that,\u201d said Platt.<\/p>\n

As hard as Boll works in his internship, he said he still loves it. The office environment is perfect. There is a strong sense of camaraderie, and no one would ever think of sending the intern out for sandwiches and coffee. \u201cYou\u2019re treated with a lot of respect,\u201d said Boll.<\/p>\n

Boll likes working for Northwestern Mutual so much he\u2019s planning on staying there. In June, when he graduates from Wright State, Boll will start working full time at the Miami Valley group office. He will be taking over Platt\u2019s work as the new college unit director, facilitating internships for other hardworking students.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s starting with a long list of clients already under his belt, an advantage of his internship and a product of his hard work. His internship has also inspired passion for the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I can\u2019t imagine doing anything else for the next 30 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Randy Boll has a history with Northwestern Mutual. When he was 19 years old, Boll was diagnosed with cancer. He would have been uninsurable for the rest of his life if … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":11632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,2034,725,747,715,4855,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-career-services","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-sciences-and-international-studies","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11629"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129828,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629\/revisions\/129828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}