<p>DD is taking an RA job at the Brown summer program. She did two summers there in HS and loved it, so she is excited to go back. The Harvard Ed. Publishing Group (current job) offered her a summer deal too, so she’ll likely be taking the train in 3-4 days a week and working 4-5 hours there as well. The H job pays well so it will be worth the commute. The Brown job is 3:00 pm+, so it sounds workable. All in all, better than anything we expected. </p>
<p>Anybody else have trips, internships, jobs, etc? I love to her what the kids come up with, and always wish I had been that creative in college instead of shoveling coal in the steel mill (literally).</p>
<p>Not very exciting (to me at least) but mine is staying at MIT and continuing his job in the lab. He’s excited because of the work he’s doing and the people he’s working with AND becaue he gets to be at school without having to study!</p>
<p>S will be teaching at one of the Explo programs, as he did last summer. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the program, Explo has three campuses, one at the St. Mark’s school outside Boston, one at Wellesley and one at Yale. Students are divided up age-wise, with the youngest at St. Mark’s, next group at Wellesley, and the oldest group at Yale. “Campers” take courses in everything from theater to engineering, depending on their preferences. He gets to be an RA in a dorm and teach two full courses and one “mini-course.” It’s a great, well-paying gig, but a lot of work!</p>
<p>My D. is going to D.C. this summer–no great academic plans, just working in a restaurant and volunteering at the zoo. She thinks she may want to move to that area after graduation and wanted to check it out plus look some at George Mason for grad school.
S. is doing an internship with a pathology group, working part-time, and taking a class at the local college to knock off an elective credit.</p>
<p>Mine is going to DC as a congressional intern, then on to Shanghai for another round of…immersive Mandarin! We’ll get to see him for a few weeks as he goes back and forth.</p>
<p>My daughter is going on the free 10-day Birthright trip to Israel. Then she’ll come home and be an intern at the Library of Congress (a continuation of the 1-week externship she had there in January).</p>
<p>My daughter will be working at a local GS camp as a counselor and taking a couple of college classes at a local CC. She’s an ed major and usually works as a camp counselor at a sleep away camp in the mountains so having her home is a real bonus. She might even be able to go on vacation with us to Maine. Yay! HS senior son however, would like a well paying summer job where he doesn’t have to work or even find it… hmmm.</p>
<p>My daughter (finishing junior year at Rice) will be doing a ministry internship through the Episcopal Church. This year she will be in Sacramento and is not sure of her exact assignment. She is in the discernment process for seminary, so this is great experience. She does get paid, but it isn’t much.
Wild Child is actually going to earn his first paycheck and work at a running store this summer in Philadelphia (at least that is the plan). He will also take some classes at Penn and get a jump on the fall.</p>
<p>Daughter is working as a counselor at a place called Ghost Ranch (in the mountains of New Mexico) where she went on winter term. Also doesn’t get paid much but she’s so excited to be spending 10 weeks there. This will be the longest we’ve ever been apart - and there’s no cell phone service on the ranch and no internet in the rooms so there’s very little communication. I’m kind of sad about it - happy for her but I will miss her.</p>
<p>My daughter will be doing ??? She just changed her study abroad plans and will be leaving mid-July for Chile, so is hoping to find some short-term work before she leaves. If all else fails, she can babysit a little bit, and hang out and catch up on sleep. It won’t earn much money, but I know she will be ready to rest after the busy semester she has had.</p>
<p>Oldest son is off to Washington D.C. this summer doing a senatorial internship. He gets paid a little but not nearly as much as he would make if he stayed home and worked at his pharmacy job. However, the Washington thing won’t take the whole summer and he will be able to work a few weeks at the pharmacy. Yongest son, just graduating from high school, will be overseeing the youth wiffle ball league for parks and recreation department again. He thinks it is so cool that he gets paid to watch little kids swing plastic bats!</p>