searching for u.s.s. internship... call in the coast guard?
*HEADDESK*
That, or my poor eyes are bleeding. You see, I am on the hunt for a summer internships. Part-time would probably be best so I could make *some* money (I plan on being a stringer for the newspaper I work for now, anyway) and I really wanted to get my feet wet in some big-city New York organizations, particularly legal advocacy COUGHreprorightsCOUGH to see if maybe, maybe that's what I'd like to do.
Here's the rub: everything that looks good is either
(A) only for law school students (I figured this much) or
(B) seems to be snagged up by this amazing program that I am so so so so so jealous of. Honestly. It's times like these that I say, amid gritting my teeth in frustration, "Why the fuck didn't I go to Smith/Mount Holyoke?!" (Answer: My dad might have killed me. Little did he know that even at a co-ed school I've still managed to get my girl on.) Also, rabbimisa, you have full permission to scoff knowingly right about... now.
So now I'm going onto every related organization/group/whatever I can Google my hands on and trying to wrench out info about interning. I feel like I'm eating pistachios with really, really tightly clamped-together shells. You have to work super hard to get the itsy-bitsy amount of meat out, and even when you do, it's not even nutritious. In other words, I'm working really hard to get a teensy little morsel of a lead on an internships, when even the end result will get me no dough.
I mean, while I've done all this I've also looked at applications to be a camp counselor, which is always a safe option, or there's always Plan C: Condemning Myself To A Bored Summer of Lifeguarding (yawwwwn). Even with my borderline-creepy sociological observations, it's still pretty insanity-provoking.
Does anyone who reads this blog (does anyone? I don't even know, this might be as useless as planting seeds in cement and hoping they'll grow, or something) have any tips/connections/super-savvy advice on the subject? Any long-time family friends who happen to head Reproductive Rights Organization For America or something? No? [crickets] Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought.
So... who's excited for Counselor Beth 2.0? Rock on with your sunblock on, kiddies.
That, or my poor eyes are bleeding. You see, I am on the hunt for a summer internships. Part-time would probably be best so I could make *some* money (I plan on being a stringer for the newspaper I work for now, anyway) and I really wanted to get my feet wet in some big-city New York organizations, particularly legal advocacy COUGHreprorightsCOUGH to see if maybe, maybe that's what I'd like to do.
Here's the rub: everything that looks good is either
(A) only for law school students (I figured this much) or
(B) seems to be snagged up by this amazing program that I am so so so so so jealous of. Honestly. It's times like these that I say, amid gritting my teeth in frustration, "Why the fuck didn't I go to Smith/Mount Holyoke?!" (Answer: My dad might have killed me. Little did he know that even at a co-ed school I've still managed to get my girl on.) Also, rabbimisa, you have full permission to scoff knowingly right about... now.
So now I'm going onto every related organization/group/whatever I can Google my hands on and trying to wrench out info about interning. I feel like I'm eating pistachios with really, really tightly clamped-together shells. You have to work super hard to get the itsy-bitsy amount of meat out, and even when you do, it's not even nutritious. In other words, I'm working really hard to get a teensy little morsel of a lead on an internships, when even the end result will get me no dough.
I mean, while I've done all this I've also looked at applications to be a camp counselor, which is always a safe option, or there's always Plan C: Condemning Myself To A Bored Summer of Lifeguarding (yawwwwn). Even with my borderline-creepy sociological observations, it's still pretty insanity-provoking.
Does anyone who reads this blog (does anyone? I don't even know, this might be as useless as planting seeds in cement and hoping they'll grow, or something) have any tips/connections/super-savvy advice on the subject? Any long-time family friends who happen to head Reproductive Rights Organization For America or something? No? [crickets] Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought.
So... who's excited for Counselor Beth 2.0? Rock on with your sunblock on, kiddies.