Summer Activities and Employment

k4r3n2
Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:34:35 +0000

By definition, I think employment is always paid and internships are always unpaid (though obviously no one who has a ‘paid internship’ goes by this distinction).

For this section, I listed the summer school courses that I took after freshman year, the exchange program that I went on sophomore year, and the girls’ engineering camp I went to junior year (if I remember correctly, it’s been 3 years now).

I think I noted the part-time year-round job that I had in the ‘employment’ section and left it off the ‘summer activities’ section because I had something else to put there over junior year. I also listed stuff like ‘hanging out with friends’, ‘family vacation’, and ‘catching up on reading’. I think the admissions office really just wants to know what you did - they’re not going to judge you if you didn’t cure cancer during your summer off.