<p>Rising jr is doing a medical research internship for 10 weeks. The stipend will cover travel, R&B plus a little more. She’s glad to get the research experience and since the other serious option, a study abroad in Mexico, was canceled, she’s very happy with the choice she made.</p>
<p>Son, a rising senior at William & Mary majoring in English with plans to go into journalism (real major is the student newspaper), has an internship with an online daily newspaper/radio station. It is in the town where he goes to school, so we do not have him at home (sniff, sniff). Guess we will have to get used to it. Fortunately, his aunt (my sister) and uncle live in that town so he is living with them. </p>
<p>Daughter will be an entering freshman in engineering at Bucknell and is planning to heavy duty babysit. Has one large family that will use her for 15-20 hours per week and several others that will use her for a few more. One may even take her on vacation with them to help look after the kid.</p>
<p>S, a rising senior is home and starts Monday at Frontier in a paid intern position. He will also take the lsats over the summer as he plans on going to law school once next year is over. Will also spend some time looking at colleges for law school.</p>
<p>Rising sophomore in the middle of choosing between two internship jobs at advertising agencies…and making $$ continuing the business she ran in high school…</p>
<p>It’s unnerving, though, having her around this much…more than even in HS…nice, but weird…</p>
<p>Rising junior is at home and has lined up 2 part time jobs, including one related to his theater major. He is also in a community theater production with me. </p>
<p>I’m sure this will be his last summer at home. Our college town is too small for him, and he has developed the contacts, focus, and skills to find jobs elsewhere. He has become so independent that he doesn’t even use me to look over his resume. </p>
<p>I will miss him. At the same time, I’m glad he’s employable and self sufficient. </p>
<p>On a sorta related tangent: S at 21 does not drink alcohol, and apparently hasn’t ever even bothered to taste alcohol. After a theater workshop, a group of us – including S – went to a bar, and it was clear that S had never been to a bar before because he was watching carefully everything I did to order a drink. He sat confidently nursing his soda while everyone else had alcoholic drinks.</p>
<p>Apparently it dawned on him later that even though he doesn’t drink alcohol, knowing what to do in bars is a skill that it would be useful to have for business because later he asked me about things like bar tabs. </p>
<p>I think that when he was in the bar was the first time he realized that adults go to bars to socialize and hang out – not to get puking drunk like some of the students do at his college, which has been known to some a a party school.</p>
<p>Rising soph at UMCP is off to New York City for an eight week internship at a very cool website that focuses on art, technology, style and design. He’s likely to be involved in research and assisting in video production.</p>
<p>OP, please PM me with the type of class your DS will be taking during the summer. Getting 10 credits from summer school sounds liek a good idea. </p>
<p>DD is attending the same school, I think. She has taken 19 hours in each of the three quarter and gained additional credit vs placement exam (my guess). I think she will have about 80 credits in the first year.</p>
<p>She will be working on campus until 8/31. SHe will then take a late flight to SLC to join her sophomore college class. That run until 9/18. So, her summer will be very productive from both $$ and study point of view.</p>
<p>Older daughter is tutoring a 9th grader for 2 weeks (10-15 hours/week). At the same time working 40 hrs a week for a web company for 6 weeks. This is a very nice gig, where she could do it from home. They pay her for 40 hrs work as long as she gets her work done. She then does 3 weeks of free summer internship at an equity research firm. In mid July, she goes off to Sydney for a semester.</p>
<p>Rising Jr son. Taking 2 community college courses. 1 will count as one of his GE requirements, the other to gain knowledge in a computer software that might prove useful down the road. He has looked for part time work but not as aggressively as I would have liked to see. He had done some yard work for several people to earn some money. He finally broke down and called his previous employer. He will start part time at a deli. This is his last summer that he will be allowed to take community college classes for credit at this 4 yr school. Our town is not large enough for him to find an internship in his area of interest.
He has checked Craigslist and found many internships in his field in 2 cities where he has family. He is realizing that next summer he will not be able to come home. He will need to gain some experience in his field. He is noting what the different internships want in terms of portfolio and software knowledge. He is supposed to be taking notes so that he can be competitive next summer.</p>
<p>D1, rising senior, left school early to start an internship with professional sports team back east. Her college is very flexible and excited about her placement. She will go straight from there back to school in fall. D2 , graduating HS senior, has a job as a sports coach for summer camps but does not want to return to it. She has six weeks to train and leave for college sport so I’m leaning towards her dropping the job.</p>
<p>S1 is working in a paid research position in his field of interest for a prof at MIT this summer. This was a very important lesson in not burning one’s bridges and he feels like he’s getting the best of worlds.</p>
<p>He found a sublet in a grad dorm that is within his budget and plans to bike to work. A number of his friends from HS and other activities will also be in Boston and environs for various projects, so he expects to have plenty of folks to see and things to do.</p>
<p>He is going directly from his college to Boston; DH is picking him up and doing the drive, and I will meet them via train enroute to help with move-in and drive home. S will come home at the beginning of September for 3-4 weeks, though he was making noises at one point about working during Orientation Week.</p>
<p>I was prepared for him to not come home next year; this year was a surprise, but it’s a fantastic opportunity and one he couldn’t decline. He landed this in October and we are all doubly grateful that funding hasn’t dried up during that time.</p>
<p>D2 is going back to the camp where she’s been a camper, a CIT, a junior/senior counselor and now a trainer (counselor for CITs). She truly loves the camp and her campers. While the pay isn’t what she could make waitressing, it’s enough to provide her with spending money for most of the school year. She starts camp in the middle of June and is now spending her time organizing herself for a fall semester at the Moscow Art Theater–she leaves 3 days after she gets home from camp.</p>
<p>DS- rising junior - is working full-time as a Research Assistant in his field, and will fly to Boston for two weeks of training on a very, very, very, very, very expensive piece of equipment that is being installed in the research lab. He is living in a cool duplex with 3 friends, and experiencing the whole “pay the bills, buy the food, clean the house” deal. Sigh… so much better than cart-boy at the local grocery store! ;)</p>
<p>DD rising junior - going to get immersed in Italian for the summer. Going to Middlebury College for Italian language immersion. I now have a translation program on my computer and phrase book since she can only communicate in Italian for 7 weeks. Her voice teacher wanted her there instead of Italy or a music festival so she would be more proficient. That pretty much kills earning much $$ in a job. At least she got a scholarship for part of it.</p>
<p>Soon to be sophomore has a full time job starting June 22 as a camp counselor (so glad she’s already got a job - so many don"t). Also taking math at a local jc 4 nights a week starting around the same time. However, in the meantime she is watching a lot of bad tv and skyping with friends from school, going to the gym and generally taking it easy. Not too shabby!</p>
<p>She really lucked out and landed a full time job at her campus. During the school year, she lived on campus, but now that she has moved back home, she commutes. Fortunately, because the mileage is not great - we were able to find someone living in our town that drives her to/from work. Her commute via public transportation would be 3 hours a day and cost $10 a day. The ride to/from work is about 1 hour a day and she pays the lady money for gas (I don’t know how much).</p>
<p>She also had a job offer in a town further away (longer and more expensive public transportation commute), but it was a commission job. She looked the place up online and saw a lot of complaints from students who had been hired, rarely paid, and fired within 2 to 3 weeks.</p>
<p>I’m glad she went for the more “sure thing” job. I’d really hate to have her hanging around the house being miserable and mopey like she was last summer (she had a part time job).</p>
<p>She is one of the lucky ones that found full time work. She had applied for several internships, but none of them panned out. In fact, many wrote back saying “thanks for applying, but we’ve canceled our internships for this year”.</p>
<p>S1 graduated May 9 and is now working full-time. S2 stayed in his college town to take summer school classes and look for work. He has applied to eight or ten places but no luck yet.</p>
<p>Have a “Young Broke & Fabulous” (Suze Orman’s name for these recent college grads) who works in real estate in Boston. </p>
<p>Have a new college grad with no job, but will probably go off with the boyfriend! </p>
<p>A Rising College Freshman has kept her job with the Day Care Center (her high school job)but she will leave on August 18th. </p>
<p>Rising High School Senior-applications, essays & volunteer work!</p>
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Ditto for my daughter! She has always found jobs with ease before so this is a big learning experience for her.</p>
<p>My son has a paid internship this summer which we - parents and son - are delighted about. After years of minimum or close to minimum wage jobs the finish line is in sight. He started school, stopped school, started, stopped again, started again and is finally focused on finishing - the internship really helps him see the point of it all (he hates school - always has - but loves work and they always love him - has a fantastic work ethic in a paid job but in school, not so much) He is not on the bachelors track but is in a 2 year tech program which will give him a fairly well paying job and benefits- yay. Maybe in a year I can stop holding my breath.</p>
<p>Rising senior Son is in the final stages of getting peer reviews for the research paper he is writing[ as lead author] based on 4 years of an intense summer internship, and then is back to college to start a new related research internship with the chair of his dept. Both are paid [yippeee!] and if his luck holds he will be published in a scientific journal by the end of the year.</p>