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Joshua N. Lambert ’01 is in charge of the internship program, having published “The (Reluctant, Nervous, Lazy, Broke, Busy, Confused) College Student’s Cookbook” under Rabbit’s Foot Press. He notes the success of many Harvard students in the program, such as Cort K. Cass ’03. Cass spent last summer writing The Redhead’s Handbook, which includes such proud pieces of history as the fact that 20 percent of U.S. presidents have been redheads...
Stephen J. Quinlan ’04, a co-chair of Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee, offered more specific ideas, as he lead a discussion on a plan for a new environmental internship program...
Scoring well on the Putnam does help open doors. Many of those who scored in the top 200 recall receiving letters from government agencies—most notably, the National Security Agency—with summer internship offers specifically tied to their performance on the Putnam. Several test-takers mentioned the edge on their graduate school applications they hoped the Putnam would add. Gleason acknowledged the usefulness of performing well in that it “certainly helps people get into graduate school and with scholarships,” while reiterating that this “speed test?...
...inhibitions and loosened its wallets. The bidding got competitive when Joshua J. Segal ’04 appeared on the catwalk dressed in a dark suit and chic yarmulke. The emcees enticed the crowd by dropping a reference to his prestigious—highly lucrative—summer internship at Goldman Sachs. After hearing that Segal would be making bank this summer, an aggressive girl in the back of the audience quickly snatched...
...Piles of internship applications loom atop my printer. To my right, Russian memoirs and the Bible await reading, while to my left the Styrofoam remnants of a take-home physics lab sit gloomily. But with R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People blasting from my stereo, I somehow know the varied elements of my life at Harvard will work themselves out—a quick listen to “Try Not to Breathe” and “Nightswimming,” and everything will be okay...