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[quote=Anonymous]Mine is in IR and kind of has one. Their 2nd major is a  foreign language and they are taking levels 1&2 of a more obscure language in the same family as the primary language (think French major taking Spanish, but different family) at a critical language university.  The class is for actual employability reasons— the primary language is very high demand and adding at least the basics the second language will be an additional employment boost for specific geopolitical reasons. Luckily, part of the program is an unpaid, 3-4 college credit internship at one of three locations in the local ethnic community.  Given what happened to IR internships after the election, they’ll take it and are thankful to have it.

But 2 foreign language classes plus a 3-4 week internship plus producing whatever is needed for the college credit for the internship is going to be a zero downtime summer.  Also, their language isn’t not usually taught in high school (hence being in high demand) and they started from scratch, so they are hustling to become as fluent as possible. So, third summer of doing language immersion at not somewhere in the DMV.  It feels like I never see this kid. Which I hate. (But it’s not about me, right? Sigh. Admire the hustle and determination.  Miss the heck out of the kid). [/quote]

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