Hirst: Worry more than worth
How will you spend your summer? Many of us spend more months considering this question than we do at our internships.
We send applications with our cover letters, résumés and transcripts to potential employers in hopes that they will consider us for internships or, in the case of fellowship applications, so they will consider us for funding to study a topic of our choosing. We spend hours sending these applications, days worrying about where we were accepted to work, weeks deciding which offer to accept and months in the internship.
Our performances in these internships...
Some of us cannot afford to hang out at the beach, bike-ride or the like. We DO have to make money, perhaps not for ourselves, but other people. Consider the students from the lowest-income brackets that are attending here. It isn't easy for them to spend summers where Yale isn't providing everything for them.
Just a thought..
Thanks for writing this intelligent article. I would not want to do any sort of internship without the mindset of contemporary Yalies of which you write. I consider myself very lucky to have been turned down from all the jobs I applied for, so that now I can do what I want, which is learning guitar, painting, and rereading lots of Shakespeare. woo!