<p>Working full time gives you a really good, hard dose of a reality check.</p>
<p>When you - not mommy or daddy - have to pay the bills, you learn a lot and grow up fast.</p>
<p>I feel that internship + professional experiences have made me much more cynical, weary and disillusioned with life. There’s a gap between me and the rest of my college friends who are still hanging onto their idealistic and somewhat candy-coated dreams and visions of the future.</p>