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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. When i was at a big public school 1997-2001, literally no one i knew was networking, sending letters, tracking down internships, etc. I remember there being on campus job fairs periodically. I don't know anyone who went.  We should have been. And we were lazy.  But this was pre real internet. As others have said, you don't know what you don't know. I don't know how we all thought we were going to get jobs.  Most of us lingered in non impressive jobs until we went back to grad school within a year or two.  Summer jobs we usually found after we went home. We worked in lawn care and camps and other jobs that were summer only.

In hindsight, if i'd put any effort into creative job hunting back then, it would have been SO easy to end up on an amazing job path. Because no one else was doing it.

I actually probably put more legwork into it than others, solely because i tried to find a job a few weeks before my first summer (which rehired me in my second summer). And i did seek out an internship in a different city during my third year summer, and that turned into a job post-school.  But you want to know how i found those jobs?  The one i got for my first summer.... my sister had finished college a year prior and was looking to change jobs. She went to the "job center" in my home town and happened to see a bulletin board posting for a summer job that she thought sounded interesting for me.  A bulletin board job posting at a job center. In 1998.  By the time i found my internship two years later, i was able to search online.  I found a webpage with DC internships - it was literally just a text based repository, non-alphabetized, not filtered internships throughout DC.  I had to submit by resume by paper.

In any event, i'm a new poster and i don't like the crap people are dumping on OP.  I think people don't realize what a different world it was before the internet existed.  [/quote]

Sure but you were at a public school. The recruiting at the ivies has always been intense. That’s the whole point ivies gave you opportunities. [/quote]

+1000

Seriously, did you not see the people running around you junior fall in their poorly-fitting blazers for corporate recruiting?[/quote]

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