Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While many Harvard students windsurfed the waves, criss-crossed exotic continents, or partied hearty throughout the summer months, others whiled away those precious sun-filled afternoons answering phones in office buildings or memorizing reruns of the Brady Bunch. And some had the gall to do nothing, absolutely nothing, zippo for that good ol' resume...
...entirely. Perhaps that's why many students who had couch potato internships or jobs that turned out to be as exciting as recopying the yellow pages are reluctant to discuss their experiences. "I don't know how I would feel about the entire world knowing I had a boring summer," says Herman...
Jane lived at home in Chicago and spent her summer evaluating math textbooks used in high schools. "I was in charge of analyzing data collected from 1000 ninth and tenth graders on their opinions of math books," she says. It's not even exciting to read about, let alone live...
...boring part yet," Jane adds. After several weeks of analyzing, she was promoted to sharpening pencils--3500 Number Twos, to be exact. (Did you ever wonder who sharpened all those pencils for your standardized tests? Now you know.) Jane says the pencils were the most boring part of the summer, at least until she realized "you can sharpen pencils and read Lady Chatterley's Lover at the same time...After that I listened to the Grateful Dead because my boss went on vacation...
...should have been fantastic," says Alexander, a junior, who worked as a lighting and sound designer for a summer stock theater in Vermont. But once he started working, the job description changed. He says he was hired to be assistant musical director, but then the management decided not to do a musical. Bad news for the music concentrator...