Word: internship
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Without even resorting to crude sexual innuendo, the poster earns itself a closer look. And once more, the poster delivers. "Are you a senior looking for a JOB?" it screams. "Are you a sophomore or a junior looking for a SUMMER INTERNSHIP?" (Notice that these categories apply to an overwhelming majority of students.) "Then enter the 1st annual Harvard Resume Contest! Contest judges are looking for well-rounded resumes. Your G.P.A. is not required...
...most common Harvard fantasies, though one rarely so explicitly exploited, emerges. (Or, shall we say, resumes.) Harvard students became Harvard students via a nationwide resume contest that all of us won. But now that we need to go through the process of finding a "JOB" or a "SUMMER INTERNSHIP," we secretly wish that this whole business would just take care of itself--no irritating cover letters, no nerve-wracking interviews, just drop the thing in the mail and be done with it--we're good enough, aren't we? And here, suddenly, on the bulletin board in Eliot House, someone...
Time to get used to the Harvard attitude: Nothing but the H-stamp is good enough. Few foreign classes or AP classes count for anything, and internship credit requires an independent study, an advisor and a blood sample...
...Listen, Julia, it's not easy. Everyone at Harvard has a job or an internship lined up already. I can't just go home and file in my uncle's office for another summer. I've got to get something good--something high-powered, or at least with a title that sounds high-powered. It's a cold cruel world, and a resume isn't worth the paper it's printed on unless you can network to support...
...campus wide-eyed and full of school spirit. After arriving in the fall of 1997, he decorated his dorm room with posters of his school teams, cheered on the Wolverines at the Rose Bowl and proudly outfitted himself in Michigan sweatshirts and caps. Then last summer, during an internship with the AFL-CIO, he started to hear how Michigan and other colleges get their sportswear--by employing licensing companies that use overseas factories where garment workers toil long hours, often for pennies...