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• !• W li ' t It ' s 8:00 a.m. and it ' s drizzling out. As usual, the N-2 Is late again. I ' ve got half an hour to make it to work. Christ, it ' s not that 1 mind work, but getting there is always an adventure. I wish the bus would get here. Now where did I hide my . . . First you get poked in the arm and kicked in the leg, and then the bus stops suddenly and four of you are on the floor , . . change? I feel the wrinkles inside my pocket. Oh, shit! I left it on my desk in my room. All I have is a dollar bill; well maybe someone else will have change. Here come some people. Great, two people and not one of them had any change. Maybe this character? Well, I guess ninety cents for a dollar is fair when you ' re desperate. Great, it ' s 8:10 and the bus is nowhere in sight, I ' m going to be late. You know, there is nothing greater than trying to find space on an already overcrowded bus and standing for a half hour. First you get poked in the arm and kicked in the leg, then the bus stops suddenly and four of you are on the floor. What a delightful way to travel downtown! Better yet, since it ' s raining out, the bus is going to smell like a wet wool factory. Well, it ' s 8:20 and I see the bus rolling up Massachusetts. It figures, the bus is filled to capacity. At least I know there ' s a seat on a bus somewhere; too bad it ' s not going where I ' m going.
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The idea of internships, of combining practical worl experience with schoolwork, is one of the factors that brought me to American. jobs while carrying a full academic load. This is, of course, strictly under-the-counter as, until recently, full time students were not supposed to be working more than twenty hours a week. According to the Career Development Center, more requests are received for clerical help than any other job, but baby-sitting and yardwork are close runner-ups. There are even requests for cat-sitters. One of the more exotic baby-sitting jobs fell to one senior, who spends his off hours tending the young son of the Washington Post editor. One former student, who now runs a magic shop in California, financed all four years at A.U. by plucking chickens. And the Career Development Center once got a request — which they fulfilled — for one student to don a chicken outfit and entice customers into one of the local fast-food emporiums! A big advantage to working in D.C. while going to school is that it can give you practical experience that can mean as much by the time you graduate as your degree, a recent American alumni said. Getting a small accounting job can be invaluable to a business major. I ' ve known lots of people who got full-time work after graduation as a result of those part-time jobs. Many business students are able to stay solvent with part time professional jobs as bookkeepers, accountants, and computer operators. Truck driving is one of the trendier jobs. And at the opposite end of the job scale, there are several students who serve as companions to the elderly. See, I think college students are more willing to take on unusual limited-time jobs because they give you more flexibility. When you have exams coming up it really helps to be able to say, well, let ' s hang work for a week or two. There are plenty of unusual jobs around, too. One A.U. student was hired by a firm from Atlanta, Georgia to look up documents and Xerox them at the Library of Congress. Paid well, too, and included an expense account for lunches on the Hill. Several students were hired this year as behavior observers on an unusual research project studying alcoholism in families. At $5-an-hour plus transportation, this was one of the better paying part-time jobs. A number of students were recruited by N.I.H. to participate in hypnosis and sleeper experiments. The best paying job for a student? Tutoring — at $5 to $8 an hour, these positions have kept many a student financially afloat. Besides all the part-time jobs A.U. students engage in during their four years on the campus, there are two other related activities that serve to crystallize career goals and perk up the pocketbook. These are the internship programs and the Cooperative Education program. The idea of internships, of combining practical work experience with schoolwork, is one of the factors that brought me to American. The internship programs here are the best in the area, without a doubt. Especially in communications, where you have a vicious employment circle. You can ' t get a job without prior experience, and you cant get experience without a job. Well, an internship really helps you out. said one senior in the School of Communications. Internship requirements vary from department to department. Internships also vary in quality, depending upon a number of capricious factors . . . whether the internship supervisor is motivated by greed or the determination to provide his underling with a real learning experience . . . whether the intern wants to learn some basic skills necessary tor survival in the real world or whether he merely wants to get a foot in the door for a job after graduation. There are internships in communication — newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, film; in business administration; in SGPA and SIS; in the literature department . . . something for everyone. In communication, the requirements are stiff The honors intern must be an approved senior with good grades. But the benefits may be large. A midyear graduate this year, through some stroke of fortune, found herself interning in the precise field which interested her most — children ' s programming. She proved capable and talented at scripting and production, and now has a full-time job on a new children ' s TV show. The success stories in broadcasting are impressive but not consistent. Although interns are discouraged from having high job expectations, they are often hired for lower entry slots when they become available. In SGPA, interns are expected to find their own placements and may do so as early as their sophomore year. There are a wealth of availabilities for internships on Capitol Hill, and the government internships are one of the great drawing cards of our University when applicants seek the Washington Experience. It sounds like a terrible cliche; but you go up to the Hill and you soon find out it s not what you know, it ' s definitely who you know, the more the better. I worked for my congressman ' s election at home, so the first place I checked was with him. He wasn ' t much help, but by accident I met someone in his office who found me a job. Which is the second point. Sometimes it ' s just a question of being in the right place at the right time, explained an SGPA major. Co-operative Education seems for many to be the wave of the future in higher education. A.U. ' s Co-op Ed program, started some three years ago, provides an opportunity to alternate classroom study with a job in the student ' s field which will offer practical experience along with some financial assistance. This year the placements were far-reaching. Some examples, in arts and humanities — music curriculum planner at a guitar shop, programmer at Folger Theatre; Communications — floor manager at WMAL-TV. photo journalism assistant at NIH; Natural Sciences — lab assistant at Walter Reed, chemistry trainee at FDA; Social Sciences — Environmental Assistant, Lightship Chesapeaker; CAJ — Montgomery County Detention Center Counselor; CTA — Computer Aide, HEW; SGPA — Program Assistant HUD, Legislative Liason, Greater Washington Labor Council; SBA — Staff Coordinator, The Greenery, retail and marketing intern. Woodward and Lothrop. And, of course, this is just a sampling. There is a tendency to think of education as something that occurs separately from the rest of life. At American you can hear students refer to the outside world as if some great wall surrounded campus with armed guards and barbed-wire holding escapees at bay near Kreeger Gate. The corollary of this is the same tendency which also prevents so many people in the working world from returning to school to take a few extra courses. They seem to feel as if their learning days should be over forever once fulltime work enters their lives. Programs like internships and cooperative education should make everyone realize that terms like part-time and full-time are just convenient words; education is something that begins the moment you are born and continues until your last breath, and maybe beyond. But, at least on a more temporal plane, for the American University student, a job can be the difference between enjoying college, and merely struggling through
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