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...Peng typically spends three to five hours a day preparing, organizing, and contacting company representatives. Coming into this semester, she knew that recruiting would be a serious time commitment. What she did not realize is that she must literally structure her life around recruiting until she gets an offer...

Author: By Elizabeth F. Maher and Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Pick Me | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

...will be a fiercely competitive year. OCS’s Judy Murray believes Harvard to be in a less precarious situation than most. At least companies are still knocking at the door, although they have less to offer and less with which to entice seniors. This is discouraging, but Peng remains confident that her years of hard work will...

Author: By Elizabeth F. Maher and Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Pick Me | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

...Peng seems as relaxed as a senior who is only taking three classes should. She sleeps in late, enjoys a nice lunch hour, and has been freeriding off her friends’ various social organizations. By taking five classes each semester for the past three years she has already completed the requirements for her economics concentration. Peng is now finishing up her cores and taking some courses related to East Asia. And yet the sense of calm is purely a façade. Peng is so engrossed with applying for jobs that she is forced to invest more time...

Author: By Elizabeth F. Maher and Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Pick Me | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

...competition with fellow seniors, Peng says, “there is more a sense of commiseration than of competition.” Yet the soft spoken Brookline native certainly has fire in her belly. She speaks with authority when discussing her experience and capability and she is positive that she is qualified for all the positions for which she is applying...

Author: By Elizabeth F. Maher and Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Pick Me | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

Peng’s resume is colored with four years of term-time work at a Boston law firm and summer jobs at an Internet start-up and Monitor Consulting, respectively. Last summer Peng had to choose between satisfying an innate desire to study in China and possibly solidifying her post-graduate plans. The prospect of interning at a firm that could offer her a full-time position at the end of the summer was appealing. A full-time offer would save her from the hectic months of recruiting...

Author: By Elizabeth F. Maher and Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Pick Me | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

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