The internship search is on…

At long last, it’s finally time to begin the daunting task of trying to find a summer internship. Unfortunately, our Career Management Center doesn’t allow companies to start focusing on first years until the Winter quarter, so we’re stuck trying to fit this internship search in with the start of our second quarter of classes. I can understand the rationale of the CMC, but it’s already starting to be an issue because there is so much work to do for classes that the extra company presentations and resume/cover letter prep have me staying up until 2-3 am trying to get everything done.

In about 10 minutes, I’ve got to run off to a “Meet the company” presentation being given by BCG and, after that, I’ve got to hit up a dinner sponsored by McKinsey. This is all after having gone to a Deloitte MTC earlier in the day and attending a McKinsey reception, a Monitor Group reception, and a Bain dinner last night. Plus, since all of the resume drops for companies started having deadlines yesterday, a lot of my time is being spent writing cover letters and customizing my resume to what these companies might be looking for. Throughout all of this, the companies are steady assigning tons of readings and giving us assignments to do for class discussion and for handing in. If things are this tight now, I’m worried about how it’ll shake out once I start having to travel to different cities for late round interviews. This is going to be a rough quarter…whew, I wish i was still on break.