<p>After graduating (hopefully! ;)) in May, I’ll be working as a research assistant at my soon-to-be alma marter through July and then moving thousands of miles away to start grad school.</p>
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<p>That sure sounds familiar! S has never had a job, but he’s been told that the only spending money he’ll have next year is what he earns this summer. We’re putting the house on the market this summer, so he also needs to weed through all of his belongings (it’s time for the transformers and Pokemon cards to go away… 
). He also gets the honor of pulling down all of the ivy climbing up the back wall and powerwashing the wall.</p>
<p>He has the attitude that summer is his vacation time and he shouldn’t have to do any work. Wrong-o, bucko!</p>
<p>momtravels- what a great idea for a job! I bet that family thinks the ‘manny’ is a godsend! very creative!</p>
<p>My D got an internship the 1st year in college, building websites for the professors, a nice segway from the job she found under WS in the Media Center. It helped her decide on her major;computer science with a sight into computational biology.
The 2nd year-was a bad internship experience. This year, she pushed for one of the few positions in the Media Center, again at her college. SHe comes home for a couple of wks, goes back to work FT, then come back a couple more wks before next semester.
The drawback is that she has to pay for housing, there is no meals included, and she has to move her stuff out for a few wks, get some of them for the Summer, and the rest by the next semester.
The college has made things more difficult by restricting where the Pods can be placed, not allowing for storage on campus(which they did before, a couple of boxes), and not allowing for the working students to remain in their rooms until the Summer work ends. A big pain, since I had to drive from NY to MA, to move things into storage and out again after two wks! The resume better look good after all that!</p>
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<p>That’s a great major. Novartis in Cambridge was looking for interns in this area for this summer. Computational chemistry too.</p>
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<p>That’s not that bad a drive unless you’re not in the eastern part of the state. Last year our son was five hours away. This year it will be about two hours away. Of course we can always videochat when he’s not busy.</p>
<p>good tip there BCeagle! thanks. I am on LI, smack in the middle, so driving to the ferry and waiting for it, takes as long as driving around the city into Connecticut. It is 4 hrs at best (Bolt bus time), could be significantly more, especially in CT, or around NYC. It is 3 RT in 3 months, lots of miles in a car with 140k already. I wonder if those internships are available after graduation…it would be good experience.
I forgot to mention that there will be an online Summer group learning Python(sp?), monitored by one of the Prof of nearby college, so she will also be self teaching the language with the help of the group. She would not mind working at making games for Nintendo or POGO.</p>
<p>Novartis is probably worth sending a resume to for a full-time job upon graduation for computational bio.</p>
<p>Python is a good language to know right now. It’s more of a scripting language and is mostly interpreted so performance isn’t so great and it isn’t something that you’d use for writing games unless it didn’t have much in the way of performance and graphics requirements. Python ties together a lot of the web.</p>
<p>My S got a job doing research for his adviser this summer, and it pays well, too! He is finishing his sophomore year right now and will be renting a room off-campus. He’ll get a month off at the end of the summer and will travel and go on a hiking trip.</p>
<p>Anyone else whose kid has made plans? I love reading posts about this.</p>
<p>My son will be graduating from high school in a few weeks. He has worked so incredibly hard at academics and athletics for four straight years that we’ve told him we want him to play guitar and a lot of golf. He’ll also work on a local farm to earn some spending money.</p>
<p>D was home for a week - then went back to school. She’ll be working full time in admissions for 3 weeks or so, then participating in a 6 week leadership/technology program there. After that, she’s lined up a paid internship here in our home state. It’s a great opportunity for her but it’s a 60+ mile drive one way… :eek: at least its only for 4 weeks!</p>
<p>D studied abroad this year. Finished classes Friday, starts internship in a law firm in the same city tomorrow.</p>
<p>DS will be a research assistant again at his university, working with his prof/mentor. As a rising senior, it probably would have been a better idea to get an internship, but he wants to travel abroad with us for 3 weeks, and the research assistantship has the most flexibility. Plus, he likes working with the prof, and he has a research project and paper to write… I guess this means he has officially moved out. He lived off-campus near his college last summer and will again this summer, so it looks like he ain’t coming back home to live anytime soon 
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<p>D just finished her junior year. Right now, she is doing an internship in the music industry & LSAT prep. After the June LSAT, she will balance her internship & a research project that she was very fortunate to get … it’s in the social sciences, and there aren’t all that many available. She will do that until early August, then she may come home for a couple weeks. </p>
<p>S will graduate from high school in a couple weeks. Hopefully, he will find a job. If not, he is going to have to volunteer somewhere … he is NOT going to sit on his rear this summer. It’s time for this one to get motivated by something other than playing guitar and recording music (which is cool, but …).</p>
<p>S will be playing NESCAC soccer in fall, so he will be staying active in high level competitive soccer by playing on his club’s USL Super 20 team, and to earn the couple of thousand bucks his college expects him to come up with toward his expenses, he’ll work for 8 weeks at the camp his HS runs. Unfortunately, no real vacation time, but we’re indulging his senioritis right now so it won’t be so tough on him.</p>
<p>Rising college sophomore D is looking for a job, but with teen unemployment in the 30% range here, I’m not holding my breath. If she can’t find paying work, we’re OK with her doing some kind of volunteer work on a regular basis, although we haven’t said so to her yet.</p>
<p>Rising college senior applied and searched for internships, to no avail. Returning to a warehouse job.</p>
<p>Rising college freshman working as a lifeguard & swim instructor.</p>
<p>Rising College Sophomore D will be working part-time in Lake Tahoe at her aunt’s business. She’ll spend four days a week there and then drive home (an hour and a half) for three days. She’s looking forward to getting some sleep and reading for pleasure. We’re ok with the part-time status since she will have two jobs back on campus in the fall. One RA job and one that’s about 10 hours per week. She’s definitely doing her part.</p>
<p>Rising college sophomore slept non-stop for a week, will travel in Europe, work with co-author to get his novel off to their agent, and spend a few weeks at our house up in Canada. He was very tired the last few weeks of the second semester and we didn’t push a money earning job or even internship. He did phenomenally well in school and won some kind of prize for academic performance (despite learning disabilities) so we figured he deserved some rest this summer.</p>
<p>Risking HS senior will visit Martha’s Vineyard at a friend’s house, do a service trip in Appalachia, go up to the Canada house for a week, do a three week highly selective dance program, study for ACTs and begin college applications, participate in a science summer program at a university to which she is likely to apply, and then spend the end of the summer at the Canada house with us.</p>
<p>Updating my Post #12, S-2 was successful with one phone call to his old boss yesterday, picking up his physical labor job with the residential moving company, and started today. The boss remembered him from 2 years ago, for which I complimented him by winking, “work ethic” while I gave him a High Five. </p>
<p>Others who’ve read about S-2 before might remember that he’s not tall, but hard-working. There’s a place for smaller guys who want per-diem work on a moving crew. It’s a small family business, all local moves. I recommend this summer job idea for college or college-bound young men. </p>
<p>Some companies employ women to do the packing of the kitchens, glassware and such, the day before the actual box-moving day.</p>
<p>Got good new today. Both school boys are going to get full time positions right near the house which cuts out transportation costs. Sigh of relief. One job possibility would have entailed a nasty drive and with 2 of them working most likely different shifts, it would have been a nightmare coordinating the driving.</p>
<p>D1 is a working professional now so she’ll spend summer much like her dad – working her tail off. D2 is a rising junior with a paid business internship that includes a stint on Wall Street. D3 graduates H.S. next week and is then off to college for summer practices for her sport, taking a couple of classes, and spending some time exploring her new city. </p>
<p>The wife and I will have most of the summer completely to ourselves :).</p>