<p>For current Penn students, what are you doing this summer? If you have a job, what kind of job? I still don't know what I'm doing ><</p>
<p>Well I am babysitting five days a week Mon thru Friday form 8 to 2. I am saving money for the "self-help" portion of my financial aid and money just to spend while I'm at Penn.</p>
<p>Other than that, I will be spending time with my friends. My family wants to go on a vacation somtime in July before I leave. :(</p>
<p>working for a strategy consulting firm outside of philly</p>
<p>last year i worked for a british biomaterials firm, which was super awesome</p>
<p>I'm interning at a small research and consulting firm and working a part-time job that I had last summer.</p>
<p>If all you want is a part-time job then just go around and apply everywhere - bookstores, restaurants, clothing stores...</p>
<p>Investment banking for RBC Capital Markets in Toronto.</p>
<p>I'm doing three jobs:</p>
<p>Risk Analyst for a trading firm in Philly
On-campus ITA (free housing)
Research Assistant for Wharton Management</p>
<p>I'll be traveling and then starting my job for Mahindra & Mahindra in Bangalore. </p>
<p>Previous summers have been spent teaching SAT prep in Seoul, interning for an event marketing company in Singapore, and interning for Apple's Asia-Pacific marketing division in Beijing. </p>
<p>In conclusion, think outside the box ;)</p>
<p>Those are fancy internships. I fail at life >.<</p>
<p>ilovebagels lives in his own fantasy world. He actually spent the last several summers sleeping on the bench next to Ben Franklin (and occasionally getting peed upon).</p>
<p>^like most college of arts and sciences students.</p>
<p>doing investment banking and earning more money than any of you, that's for sure.</p>
<p>I genuinely feel sorry for ibankers. Save yourself before it's too late---!</p>
<p>I think I have a pretty good deal this summer because it's at no cost. Housing is free, there's always tons of food, and the jobs themselves pay quite well, (with the exception of the summer ITA job which is like 8-something an hour, but it comes with the free housing so it's a tight deal).</p>
<p>^^^Is it that hard to believe that some people actually find it interesting to work on multi-billion dollar deals that you can read about for days in the paper? Or that some people think it's really cool that one day, they could eventually become a trusted advisor to F500 CEOs?</p>
<p>Not saying I'd do it for $60k a year (too many hours), but there are other things I could do if all I cared about was the money. There's always a work-life tradeoff -- I prefer work, so I can enjoy a very comfortable life afterwards.</p>
<p>No, it's not hard to believe, but the number of hours is staggering. It just comes down to what we place value on, really. Working on huge deals is great, but if I have to sacrifice a huge chunk of my life for it, it just doesn't feel like it's worth it. A lot of people don't really understand how many hours investment bankers truly have to spend working. I'd rather spend my 20's doing something I find enjoyable but still rewarding that still allows me a decent amount of free time, and there are many financial sectors that allow for this.</p>
<p>If you like banking, then go for it. Just not my cup of tea, is all.</p>
<p>My summer plans:</p>
<p>LSAT June 16th (kill me)</p>
<p>Research Assistant in Anthropology (20 hours /week paid)</p>
<p>Small marketingish internship (10 hours/week unpaid)</p>
<p>Summer RA (paid... free housing/get to bust legend of max's parties)</p>
<p>Taking classes (Spanish and Polisci ... mostly to raise the GPA for law school but also because I want to learn some more before my time at Penn is done)</p>
<p>Haha, where are you staying this summer, choco?</p>
<p>I'll be in Mayer Hall. I get my own kitchen and bathroom I'm quite excited.</p>
<p>Summer job and spend every moment I can with my girl.</p>
<p>technically, I sleep UNDER the bench, not on it</p>
<p>hah, i'm taking lsats on june 16th too</p>
<p>Are you taking them at Penn?</p>
<p>I heard that taking them at Penn made a lot of people nervous - seeing your friends who are also stressing out, for example. I heard it described as like "Guantanamo Bay."</p>
<p>So I'm taking them at Temple.</p>