<p>I’ll be working full time. I want to travel to Las Vegas, New York, San Antonio, Miami, Portland, and Los Angeles to work. I thought about just driving around the country but it’s a lot of money in gas and I don’t want that mileage on my car.</p>
<p>working part time</p>
<p>and smoking about a pound of weed</p>
<p>lollapalooza and pitchfork too</p>
<p>Hopefully the MTA internship. If not a full time job at the daycare, the bookstore or a summer orientation assistant.
I might go to my family’s Poconos timeshare with my sister or spend a night or two in Boston.
I’m going to a VIP event on Thursday. It’s gonna be soooo nice. :)</p>
<p>Assume the fetal position, cry in a corner, and hopefully die or fall asleep for a long time.</p>
<p>Landscaping with a bunch of immigrants for 40-55 hours a week. I intend to finish reading Gravity’s Rainbow and a few other books, but I’ll probably end up drinking beer and playing dreamcast with my friends instead</p>
<p>holy crap. leah, waiting tables is a million times worse than retail.</p>
<p>i worked retail from 14-17 and since then have been waiting tables. it’s strenuous, exhausting physical labor, and the customers’ whims decide how much money you make. you could leave a shift with a quarter of what you made the night before. additionally, you have to put up with waaaaay more bs from customers (and managers and corporate policy, if you’re working for a chain) because people tend to get exceptionally angry about food, for whatever reason. there are ALWAYS the customers who come in trying to get something free, then will complain about things that don’t exist until the manager takes the entire meal off the check and you make $0 after running around and trying to accommodate all their crap while being forced to ignore your other tables (otherwise, you’ll be reported to the corporate office by those lowlifes and three days later will have a “serious discussion” with your manager and a mark on your file). or the @$$wipes who want “special orders” on every component of their meal, and if the minutest thing is wrong will send everything back to be recooked and stiff you on their $200 check (and you HAVE TO claim 10% of that by law) while you’re paid $2.83/hour. or the inconsiderate people who sit and chitchat for literally four and a half hours at 1 of your 3 tables, costing you tons of money. then there’s the sidework you have to do for an hour+ after every shift, which is also often physical labor, and yet you’re paid $2.83 for that hour as well (the managers don’t want you “milking the clocks”, but insist you can’t start sidework until all your tables are gone).</p>
<p>waiting tables is seriously h3ll, and if anyone thinks differently, they need to wait tables for at least two months to see what it’s like. it’s physically draining, mind-numbing, alienating, and ceaselessly frustrating.</p>
<p>sadly, i will be doing it AGAIN this summer. my tuition is freaking expensive.</p>
<p>Ill be working as a camp counselor for 7 weeks, and I’m trying to find another job but I doubt that’s going to happen.</p>
<p>Besides that I’m hoping to go to the Idol Tour, white water rafting and see a few shows in NYC. </p>
<p>Also I’m hoping to lose a bit of weight before I go to college.</p>
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i did it last summer for like 3.5 months, and yeah, it sucked (for all the reasons you mentioned), but it’s not as mind-numbingly boring as retail. i worked at a department store and i hated that job by DAY TWO. ridiculous.</p>
<p>i worked at a TGI friday’s in an affluent area, and i could basically count on 20% tips all the time because the people were pretty rich, i was pretty personable, and i milked “i’m a poor college student” for all it was worth when i chatted with customers. to be honest, i’d only consider a tip “good” if it were better than 20%. also, the other servers were mostly all around my age, so it was a pretty social job. we’d have meals together before shifts and sometimes party afterward.</p>
<p>yeah, it was rough & demoralizing at times (especially during the rushes)–i never knew it was even possible to treat another human being the way i was treated by some customers. but overall the job was enjoyable (especially looking back now–last summer i wanted to kill myself every time i walked up to the hostess stand to start my shift).</p>
<p>i liked reading your serving gripes because they’re totally universal–i’m SO conscious now of never staying too long in restaurants & i haven’t given a tip lower than 20% since i waited tables, no matter how the service is.</p>
<p>I’m taking classes! I have a 3 week interim class (5x/week, 3 hours a day) that started the Monday after finals, and then a full course load. I wanted to do an internship, but the economy won’t let me move.</p>
<p>Leah…I’m jealous.</p>
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<p>do you have plans for the backpacking? I went last summer with a friend (after graduation) and hit London, Paris (+Versailles), Rome (+Vatican), Interlaken (+Lauterbrunnen and surroundings), Zurich, Vienna, Krakow (+Auschwitz/Birkenau), Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Brussels. It was a great experience.</p>
<p>yes! the plan:</p>
<p>london (+stonehenge!), amsterdam, munich (+dachau), interlaken, geneva, nice, paris (+versailles) :)</p>
<p>i’d love it if you could tell me what you loved the most/what we shouldn’t miss! also if you stayed in any good hostels, we haven’t booked any yet & are looking for guidance</p>
<p>Work work work! 50 hours a week. Darn you college for costing so much! I work at the zoo, though, so it should be a’ight. :D</p>
<p>sEx… well hopefully</p>
<p>but jobs and some summer school</p>
<p>leah, i think the area you work in makes all the difference. you worked in an affluent area, i worked in the ghetto. additionally, it’s the most popular restaurant in the area, so it was ALWAYS “rush” until we closed, basically. we always had a 20+ minute wait. it’s like how people seem to universally agree that fine dining is MUCH easier to work at than chains/diners/whatever. less cheapskates, less chaos.
also, i worked at this restaurant full-time for two years while going to school full time. it was mad exhausting and i felt like i lived there. misery.</p>
<p>summer school 
intramurals:) and work (fin aid dep) :(</p>
<p>"i did it last summer for like 3.5 months, and yeah, it sucked (for all the reasons you mentioned), but it’s not as mind-numbingly boring as retail. i worked at a department store and i hated that job by DAY TWO. ridiculous.</p>
<p>i worked at a TGI friday’s in an affluent area, and i could basically count on 20% tips all the time because the people were pretty rich, i was pretty personable, and i milked “i’m a poor college student” for all it was worth when i chatted with customers. to be honest, i’d only consider a tip “good” if it were better than 20%. also, the other servers were mostly all around my age, so it was a pretty social job. we’d have meals together before shifts and sometimes party afterward.</p>
<p>yeah, it was rough & demoralizing at times (especially during the rushes)–i never knew it was even possible to treat another human being the way i was treated by some customers. but overall the job was enjoyable (especially looking back now–last summer i wanted to kill myself every time i walked up to the hostess stand to start my shift).</p>
<p>i liked reading your serving gripes because they’re totally universal–i’m SO conscious now of never staying too long in restaurants & i haven’t given a tip lower than 20% since i waited tables, no matter how the service is. "</p>
<p>That’s good. But, I’ve never given more than 10% for tips and this is why. </p>
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<li>If I give tips then the owner will just keep on lowering the base wage for the waiter will doesn’t really help (since the owner relies on us to pay the waiter).</li>
<li>I don’t even know if the “tip” will go to the waiter or owner. Because I use a debit card and how do I know the “tip” I pay at the machine goes to my favourite waitress? </li>
<li>I haven’t noticed a difference in service quality from 0 to 10% tips. So I don’t want to pay a waiter a tip just because he exists. Although I do pay waitresses more since they are more attractive.</li>
<li>Food is already too expensive.</li>
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<p>^^you’re a total ******* and don’t understand anything about the wage process for food service employees. don’t go to a restaurant at all if you can’t afford to tip your server…</p>
<p>Sigh.
Internship + University Research + classes</p>
<p>I didn’t realize how much I just wanted to relax and do absolutely nothing this summer until I realized that I have to return to back to the grindstone on Monday.</p>
<p>im going to study at the sorbonne for a month as well! are you doing it through a program or on your own?</p>
<p>NSF-REU program.</p>