i would say do it, and look at the industry for job prospects of yuor major, Stem realistcally needs alot of exp prior to graduation(many arnt able to set foot in the fields). also look into your university if they have "volunteering" specific to your field, thats outside of course curriculums.

Swede here, I just have one thing to say:

"Lycka till med skolan!"

II. Reconstruction of the Events

1. The Olympic atmosphere of the summer of 1936 was (also) a product of Nazi propaganda

Setting aside those interpretations that also generally include the architecture of the 1930s in the fascism context, the thesis has now prevailed in literature that the 1936 Games, precisely because of their emphatically apolitical implementation, had a lasting political effect in favor of the Nazi regime. This thesis is both right and wrong. Right, because the core of the Games and their surroundings were perceived by many contemporaries as free from political constraints, as a perfectly organized world sports festival. The thesis of the "apolitical" Games, to which many sports officials still adhere today, is wrong because the relatively apolitical atmosphere was politically intended and deliberately brought about.

What hadn't been done to create a peaceful, cheerful atmosphere in the capital in the summer of 1936 that was reminiscent of—and was meant to be reminiscent of—the glorious twenties, especially in cultural life? On the upper floor of the Kronprinzenpalais, one could see a slightly "defused" but still representative presentation of important works of modernism, including, for the last time, van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Reaper" and Franz Marc's "Tower of Blue Horses". On the streets and squares, police officers behaved like guardian angels; the Kurfürstendamm experienced an echo of the twenties, remembers author Dieter Anders. Special attention was paid to a deliberately peaceful, civilian self-presentation: a few months after German troops marched into the demilitarized Rhineland, the aim was to create the impression of a peace-loving Germany for foreign countries. Although the organizing committee had still toyed with the idea of inaugurating the Reichssportfeld with "military sports competitions" at the beginning of the Olympic year, which failed due to Hitler's veto, the military element was now to largely retreat from the public appearance at the behest of the Reich Ministry of the Interior: members of the uniformed party formations were ordered "to wear sports clothing where possible in the Olympic competition venues and not uniforms". On Himmler's orders, the Leibstandarte was not allowed to "cordon off with fixed bayonets when the Führer arrives", and in a discussion about the radio program during the Olympic Games, it was ordered "to avoid march music at all costs because of the foreigners visiting the Reich". The Italian government's offer to send a military aerobatic squadron to Berlin was politely declined for the same reasons.

The good atmosphere was not to be disturbed by news of supply bottlenecks, beer price increases, or capital crimes, as can be seen from the secret press instructions. Other measures that might have feared a negative foreign echo, such as the already decided expatriation of Thomas Mann or the trials for so-called racial defilement, were postponed until the end of the Games.

When the völkisch weekly "Die Stimme" began to polemicize against the numerous church events during the Games—a concession to American churches, which had long advocated a boycott of the Games—it was promptly banned. Particular caution was exercised towards the Americans, whose participation was disputed until the end: the German press was repeatedly strictly instructed to maintain strict neutrality on the race issue, especially after the "Angriff" had committed the faux pas of referring to the colored Olympic champions as "auxiliary troops," which of course, as can be seen from Goebbels' diaries, for example, was the prevailing view of the Nazi leadership. Restraint was also to be exercised in cheering for German victories. After the exuberant reaction of some papers to the first German athletics victories, the Ministry of Propaganda called for moderation: "We should not only deal with the German victories, but must also do justice to other countries," noted the Berlin correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung on August 4, 1936. Small Olympic teams should be treated as well by the press as large ones. "Berlin was like intoxication," recalls the German Olympic champion in hammer throw, Erwin Blask. This impression was also taken home by many foreign visitors, some of whom complained in letters to the editor that the extent of persecution and harassment, e.g., of the Jewish population, had been grossly exaggerated. And indeed, the fact that in Berlin, as already in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the "Stürmer" display cases and anti-Jewish slogans had been removed in the vicinity of the Olympic sports venues, and that the German press was strictly forbidden to report "on confrontations with Jews," contributed to the impression of a temporarily tamed radicality of National Socialist racial policy before and during the Olympic Summer Games. Retarding moments in the persecution of Jews cannot be overlooked. However, they were limited to the Olympic venues and the tolerance of a cultural life of its own for Jewish communities, which was then destroyed in 1938. In Bavaria, the SS even had to be deployed to clear the Olympic road from Munich to Garmisch of anti-Jewish signs. The impression of a temporarily tamed radicality of Nazi racial policy, widespread in memoir literature, owes its origin to these primitive deception maneuvers and the manipulated reporting in the coordinated German press. This impression is, so to speak, a long-term success of Goebbels' press control, which issued the following instruction on January 27, 1936: "With regard to the Winter Olympics, it is strictly forbidden to report in the future on clashes with foreigners and actual confrontations with Jews. Such things should be avoided at all costs, even in the local sections, so as not to give foreign propaganda material against the Winter Olympics at the last minute."

2. The Memory of the Sporting Event

The laboriously reconstructed "reality" or "realities" reconstructed by the historian, who has access to the sources and thus also to the internal information of 1936, cannot of course be equated with the current perceptions of contemporaries, especially when they were perceived through the narrowed perspective of the sports enthusiast who was not interested in the political environment. This fan was offered perfectly organized Games and experienced an Olympics of records with more participants than ever before (4,066 athletes from 49 countries), with more spectators (3.7 million, including 150,000 foreigners), with sporting achievements without equal: in athletics competitions alone, twelve world records were improved, Olympic records were surpassed. This fan was offered technical innovations such as the automatic finish line film. More important, however, were the technical innovations outside the competition venues: the total radio broadcast of the Games, the first television images (over 100,000 Berliners are said to have witnessed the competitions in the reception rooms of the Reichspost) and the previously unknown extent of press and film Olympic reporting, the media campaign in the run-up, the worldwide transmission technology, and the numerous report volumes, including the well-known collector's albums of the cigarette picture service Altona-Bahrenfeld. All this together, in conjunction with the surprisingly good performance of the German athletes, gave the Olympic Movement in Germany a previously unknown mass base and a resonance that was further enhanced by Leni Riefenstahl's film stylization.

Another reason for the lasting memory—especially in sports circles—is to be found in the fact that it would take twelve years before Olympic Games could be celebrated again. With few sporting exceptions, Berlin was the only Olympic opportunity and the only Olympic experience for a generation of athletes. That the preparations for the war, which caused the cancellation of the 1940 and 1944 Games, reached a peak in the summer of 1936, is also beyond dispute.