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[quote=Anonymous]These kids are on a never-ending treadmill.  It makes me so sad.  Within a few months of showing up at a top school after knocking themselves out in HS, they are already worried about getting a succession of impressive, crowd-pleasing summer internships.  Everything has been pulled forward from my own experience in college.  I have a college sophomore at a top school and she started her sophomore summer search last July and just got an offer for this summer, but had already begun the junior summer (2025) internship search — a year and a half away.  There was an overlap period of several weeks where she was doing parallel internship searches for 2024 AND 2025. There is so much pressure to do well academically, get all the right internships and job experiences and granularly plan out one’s life for the next 10 years.  And, then post the whole thing on Instagram, LinkedIn etc., for the world to see.  This occurs against a backdrop of a sea change in the job market.  We shouldn’t be surprised when they wonder, “is this all worth it?” and “why am I doing this?”.  I try to convince my DD to take one day at a time and figure it all out as she goes along, as I did, but that hasn’t been especially persuasive to this generation.  I worry that the opportunities for today’s kids coming out of a place like Princeton perhaps really are fewer and that is what they see and feel.  30 years ago the vast majority of the graduating class would go on to have productive and meaningful lives and maybe a much smaller subset of the class will do that now, or perversely really big opportunities for a very select few.  [/quote]

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