An LSU mechanical engineering student landed a prestigious internship at Nike’s North American Distribution Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Out of 70,000 applicants, only 200 were chosen for the internship — LSU’s Colby Faust being one of them.
Faust, a senior from Denham Springs, did not expect to be chosen for the internship because many of the applicants picked were either Division I athletes or engineers from Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale and Columbia.
“At first, I was like, hold on. I can’t get a job at Nike because I’m a mechanical engineering student,” Faust said. “But then I started looking into more roles and kind of what exactly the job description was. And I was like, ‘Oh wait, I do know how to do these things and I am part of this situation.’”…