Archive for February 2018
Hooking up ousts firm relationships
Teenage relationships commonly consist of casual hookups or long-term couplings. To say this generation is inadequate in forming emotionally intimate relationships is probably the understatement of the century. Instead, we seem to be creating non-relationship relationships. Just the other day, while walking through the hallowed halls of Brookline High School, mindlessly eavesdropping and people-watching per…
Read MoreToward a broader job search
As the spring semester begins, students are scrambling to secure summer internships and post-graduation positions. The pressure is especially high for seniors, who will soon be completing their final semester and walking through the Van Wickle gates into the dreaded “real world.” For those of us seniors who still don’t have a job lined up…
Read MoreLeave millennials alone about their piercings and tattoos
Over the summer, I interned at Long Beach City Hall. I had to apply for the position and was eventually interviewed. My interview went well: I brought my resume, dressed for the occasion and made sure I appeared qualified. I also had bright blue hair in high school, including when I interviewed for my internship.…
Read MoreAnother kind of doctor
From the time I was in elementary school to the summer before I came to Yale, if you had asked me what kind of career I was going to go into, I would have told you that I was going to go to medical school and become some kind of physician. When people back home…
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