Rising College Sophomore Summer

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Anonymous wrote:Mine had a congressional internship with our locks congressmen. No relation or connections.

Locks?

I’m guessing the person meant to type the word “local.”

[Anonymous]

Pool manager where he used to lifeguard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are going to do some intensive foreign language study, both at Middlebury and abroad.

So you are doing this with your kid?

NP. Hate these gotcha posts, so superior

My kid was also a camp counselor bc they loved it and the resume building stuff would come soon enough. No later regrets.

[Anonymous]

Honestly as a higher manager at a big consulting company, I prefer the kids who did the camp counseling jobs a few summers and then junior year had a office job. It shows they can deal with chaos and an ever changing environment. And rarely if ever do their parents call the office like the kids who had connected internships from freshmen year.

[Anonymous]

Pool operator. Best summer job ever, and learning management skills at a young age. It’s hard to manage your peers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly as a higher manager at a big consulting company, I prefer the kids who did the camp counseling jobs a few summers and then junior year had a office job. It shows they can deal with chaos and an ever changing environment. And rarely if ever do their parents call the office like the kids who had connected internships from freshmen year.

+1 my son spent a summer as counselor for 5-6 year old boys. He can handle anything. Had an office job through a friend the next summer. Now a junior and looking for a real internship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are going to do some intensive foreign language study, both at Middlebury and abroad.

That is a good option. One thing about Middlebury’s summer language programs to keep in mind is that they all are very intense immersion programs. Most students find the summer programs to be highly valuable, good opportunities to build connections, and great education, but also high stress for many students.

[Anonymous]

For STEM, try to find a paid civil service internship someplace local (e.g., ARL in Adelphi or NIST in Gaithersburg).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What types of things do students at Top 25/Ivy Plus Schools do during the summer after Freshman year to build their resumes? I'm sensing that the only kids who get internships that early are nepo kids.

Lol. Top 25/Ivy Plus? You’re such a snob.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are going to do some intensive foreign language study, both at Middlebury and abroad.

So you are doing this with your kid?

Ha ha. I know, right? These people are really living through their kids!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly as a higher manager at a big consulting company, I prefer the kids who did the camp counseling jobs a few summers and then junior year had a office job. It shows they can deal with chaos and an ever changing environment. And rarely if ever do their parents call the office like the kids who had connected internships from freshmen year.

Good to hear this!

[Anonymous]

Full-time live-in pool boy at a mansion owned by a wealthy older man who is often away on business and his beautiful, restless, unfulfilled much-younger wife.

[Anonymous]

When would a freshman college student start looking for and applying for a summer internship? I know the older students start looking in the fall for the following summer, so I’m guessing the same timeframe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are going to do some intensive foreign language study, both at Middlebury and abroad.

So you are doing this with your kid?

NP. Hate these gotcha posts, so superior

NP#2 - I don’t think it’s a gotcha or smug/superior. I think it’s an understandable reaction to a parent who uses “we” to refer to their child’s activities. To me, it screams enmeshment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are going to do some intensive foreign language study, both at Middlebury and abroad.

So you are doing this with your kid?

NP. Hate these gotcha posts, so superior

NP#2 - I don’t think it’s a gotcha or smug/superior. I think it’s an understandable reaction to a parent who uses “we” to refer to their child’s activities. To me, it screams enmeshment.

Enmeshment is a concept in psychology and psychotherapy introduced by Salvador Minuchin to describe families where personal boundaries are diffused, sub-systems undifferentiated, and over-concern for others leads to a loss of autonomous development.