Spring Break
After busy year, summer won't be relaxing for everyone
Brandon Southward
Issue date: 6/3/09 Section: Forum
Don't look now but summer is almost here. At the pace spring term is going, summer will be here sooner rather than later. This entire school year has gone by in a blink of an eye. If winter term was fast, then spring term was a blur. The midterms and papers seem to come one after the other, after one was finished it's time to start the other.
During this busy time, while everyone was in what seemed to be a sustained frantic pace, often I was the victim of the drive-by hellos; you know, when someone walking by you says hello, how are you, and before you can even open your mouth or turn around they are past you and onto their next victim. The term moved so quickly that midway through I realized there wasn't even time to stress because it took up too much time.
But now the term is ending and summer is within reach. This means the anxiety will stop right? Well, no, because most of the anxiety lies as soon as summer begins. There will be job and internship searching, planning for next year and for many of us just recouping from this year.
Finding a job, however, might be the most anxiety-inducing aspect of it all when taking all things into consideration.
This task is normally difficult, with thousands of people out of school scrambling to find work. However this will be made even tougher with the current economic situation the country is going through. Jobs will be much more difficult to come by as companies are shredding jobs and the economy is shrinking.
The graduating seniors might be the worst off. They will be entering the job market at possibly the worst time since the stagnation years of the late 1970s. Whole fields of careers are being decimated. Teachers are being laid off left and right as state governments make the oh-so-smart decision of cutting education during an economic crisis. Business CEO's are being fired for their suspected roles in the collapse.
If you don't mind being called greedy and blamed for all of America's current ails, Wall Street is most likely taking applications.
During this busy time, while everyone was in what seemed to be a sustained frantic pace, often I was the victim of the drive-by hellos; you know, when someone walking by you says hello, how are you, and before you can even open your mouth or turn around they are past you and onto their next victim. The term moved so quickly that midway through I realized there wasn't even time to stress because it took up too much time.
But now the term is ending and summer is within reach. This means the anxiety will stop right? Well, no, because most of the anxiety lies as soon as summer begins. There will be job and internship searching, planning for next year and for many of us just recouping from this year.
Finding a job, however, might be the most anxiety-inducing aspect of it all when taking all things into consideration.
This task is normally difficult, with thousands of people out of school scrambling to find work. However this will be made even tougher with the current economic situation the country is going through. Jobs will be much more difficult to come by as companies are shredding jobs and the economy is shrinking.
The graduating seniors might be the worst off. They will be entering the job market at possibly the worst time since the stagnation years of the late 1970s. Whole fields of careers are being decimated. Teachers are being laid off left and right as state governments make the oh-so-smart decision of cutting education during an economic crisis. Business CEO's are being fired for their suspected roles in the collapse.
If you don't mind being called greedy and blamed for all of America's current ails, Wall Street is most likely taking applications.
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