Reading Day
In this Issue:
- Summer Internship Survey
- College rejection parties
Today is one of our Reading Days, which are days meant for studying before finals begin on Friday (4/28). My world is still rocking with last-minute work on our New Students website, so today will I will be brief (for once LOL).
Summer Internship Survey
One of my colleagues sent me a request, which I am sharing with y’all:
Wake Washington, the Office of Alumni Engagement, and the Office of Personal and Career Development (OPCD) are working together to determine where students are interning this summer. We are doing this so we can plan networking events in cities across the country where we have a concentration of students interning, so those students can meet and engage with alumni and families.
If your student is doing a summer internship, please ask them to fill out this very brief Summer Internship Survey letting us know a little bit about their internship – company, location, etc. We will follow up later with plans for any events in the city where they will be for the summer (if applicable).
We know many of our students plan to be in DC, but we also want to hear from students who are interning in any of the major US cities. The more students who fill this out, the better we can plan for events in these cities. Please forward this information to any of your Wake students (not graduating seniors) who have internships lined up for the summer, in DC or anywhere else!
College Rejection parties
I saw this article (Sorry, You’ve Been Rejected. Now Let’s Party.) in The New York Times yesterday and thought those of you with high school seniors (or even juniors) would get a kick out of it. Here’s a teaser:
“At Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles in mid-April, Lynda McGee, one of the school’s college counselors, checked her paper shredder. She needed to make sure it had the optimal effect: loud, obnoxious and finite.
Soon, her high school seniors would parade into the room clutching rejection letters from colleges across the nation, and those papers need to be masticated as dramatically as possible….Then they receive an ice-cream sundae, and pledge to not be defined by the college they attend. ‘Ice cream heals all wounds’ Ms. McGee said with the confidence of a teacher who has done her research.”
I have a HS senior (as do many of my college friends and Wake colleagues) and we have commiserated on some of the baffling rejections our students and their very qualified friends have gotten. It seemed to be an especially brutal year for rejections.
I love the idea of rejection parties. Let’s destigmatize rejection (because it happens to all of us at some point, whether it is a college application or a job or internship you didn’t get) and add a little humor – and cake! – to the mix. Because cake is one of my all-time favorite foods, I would humbly suggest that rejection parties feature cake with big frosting roses 🙂
Good luck to all our Deacs! Crush those finals tomorrow!