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...classes and the study-hard, play-hard nature of school, some sound concerned when the subject turns to their job hunt. At the Harvard Business School, a second-year MBA candidate recently posted a blog entry poking fun at the euphemisms business school students use to explain why one internship or another hasn't yielded a full-time offer. What they say is "There wasn't a cultural fit," or "I wouldn't have gone back anyway," blogger CS@HBS writes. But what they mean is "I didn't get an offer...
...underprivileged. “The state will not prosecute a police who shoots a poor person in the line of duty,” he said. Sheffield first encountered police violence in Argentina when he was there with Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies internship program and La Liga had him working on a court case involving police brutality. During his second summer in the country, Sheffield experienced institutionalized violence firsthand, when he was beaten by members of the Buenos Aires police force. Having conducted interviews with around 50 junior police officers in Argentina...
...Fast-forward a decade or so to my first real internship. Bringing first job jitters into this idiotic equation that is my approach to life, it was clear that any attempt at success in this new realm they call “the office” would be futile. For someone who sweats the simple stuff, a summer internship in midtown Manhattan is a veritable hell on earth. Life hands me lemons, and I can’t even figure out how to slice them...
...Class of 2009. This past summer, some of our present seniors were resigning themselves to getting into bed with one of the Lehman Brothers. Now that you have shot them all dead, President Faust, these students are free to dream big again. They will think of taking that internship with The Times, or moving back home to Michigan to help their depressed community, or continuing their cancer research, and out of the ashes of greedy Wall Street a hundred little Timmys will arise to serve their country and their kind...
...customers. Makolin, for one, says she started going because of the economy and a tough situation at home. She drives home to Ann Arbor every weekend, which takes an hour each way, to help her mother care for her father, who has Parkinson's disease. Even with a paid internship, Makolin says, it's tough to pay for ever-pricier food on top of an increasingly expensive commute as well as her own housing and utilities bills. "My dollar box of mac and cheese isn't a dollar anymore," she says. Like many food bank patrons, Makolin says the food...