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Sure, there are those lucky ones who already found an internship at The Washington Post, their Senator's office or Goldman Sachs. For the rest of us anxiously waiting or desperately looking Harvard students, the pressure mounts when we are asked the most popular question around campus this time of the year: "What are you doing this summer...
...followed the traditional route of my fellow high school grads, I would be returning to Cape Cod to take up my usual job as a restaurant waiter and--perhaps by now--assistant manager. When I talk about my internship search, all my friends at home say to me, "Why find an internship this summer when you can come work and hang out with us at the beach?" Then I begin to question my reasoning...
...working at the local eatery back home, as I did last year? I have become trapped in the same thinking, the same mentality as everyone else. Rather than enjoying the rest of the semester and whatever is left of spring, I am searching for some sort of career-focused internship...
Many of our comrades take part in this process of sending cover letters and resumes, a process which began in February and has culminated in this home stretch. When your roommates and friends are also searching for some "meaningful" summer internship--applying to firms and agencies with five unpronounceable names and of which they know little about except for the fact that The Princeton Review has named it one of its Top 100 Internships--it's hard to avoid becoming drawn into this cult...
...fact that for students on such a motivated and driven campus, where a disproportionately high number of students end up entering one high-paying or highly-respected fields, summers aren't meant to relax, but rather are used to further their career goals. I'm still playing the summer-internship search game, and I haven't yet decided whether I will elect to join the ranks of my fellow classmates and work 40 hour/five day weeks in a career-furthering position...