The source of the trouble
You know what I’m talking about — the girls dressed in head-to-toe pinstripes complete with modest strings of pearls, the guys in matching business regalia…
In the first week of school, you already see not only seniors but juniors and even sophomores partaking in the festivities of On Campus Recruiting. These poor pre-professionals are seeking new internships mere weeks after they finish their last ones.
I see them as nothing short of over-pressured, overworked drones. Granted, at least 80% of these folks are from Wharton, doomed from the beginning to sign their souls away for nothing more than a yearly bonus which they won’t have time to spend.
But what about you, College students? What are you doing attending recruiting sessions a whole semester before summer OCR actually starts?
There is something to be said about the bone-and-mental-capacity-crushing level of pre-professionalism here at Penn.
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