Interrupting Post is Interrupting

This is supposed to be Where Are We Now (Part 2)- talking about my week at the beach following the New York trip.  That post will still come out sometime soon.

I was talking with roommate Ben the other day, lamenting the summer job search.  It's so binary- getting an internship is so incredibly important and requires so much effort and makes you feel so terrible about yourself as a person up until the moment you get one, at which point it doesn't matter at all.  Every resume and cover letter that goes out into the darkness unanswered seems like an assault on you as a person.  Every interview that ends with a "we'll let you know" followed by a thin envelope two weeks later explaining how you're a great candidate but they're going with someone else makes you want to give up entirely.  It is disheartening to have the feeling that you're going to one of the best law schools in the country and it seems like no one wants you to work for them even if you're doing it for free.  The problem is compounded as more students realize this and then send off increasingly less specific and enthusiastic cover letters to increasingly greater numbers of potential employers.

This observation is, of course, not news at all to anyone who has ever been looking for a job of any sort for any period longer than a couple of weeks.  We are not special or unique in experiencing this.

My numbers, if I were to estimate, go something like this:

Applications sent out: 30-40
Requests for interviews received: 5
Absolute silence: 20-25
Outright rejections: 2

These numbers would be considered really good by most of my classmates.  REALLY good.  Anything over a 5% interview request rate would be considered good, if the numbers I've heard are any indication.

Anyway, none of that matters anymore (as I had predicted in my conversation with Ben) because I got a job that I really wanted and I have accepted it.  It allows me to stay in DC, hang out around GULC as well as the Supreme Court, and teach some law!  I'll throw in more details about what I'm doing as they come up, but for right now I'm just very happy with the good fortune that I had in finding what seems to be the perfect job for me.  Now if all the rest of my friends get lucky in the crap shoot that is internship-finding I will be even happier.

Next major project- housing.