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Wednesday, August 6, 2003

I don't know what I did last summer!

Young adults are saying enough is enough and not getting yet another high-stress, intense summer job according to this New York Times story (registration required):

After spending their summers accumulating the experiences deemed necessary for admission to the right college or graduate school or for an early jump on a career, Ms. Phillips-Patrick and some of her peers are mounting a rebellion. They are getting off the résumé-building track this summer.

...These are the organization kids, as David Brooks, the author of "Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There," calls them, describing their sleep-deprived, goal-oriented, résumé-building lives. College, he says, is just one step on the continual stairway of advancement.

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