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Penury and June: Preparing for the Post-College Wasteland

Welfare lines loom for liberal arts majors.

In response, I would say, um, maybe it is. But what you are eating is offered for free--and desperate times demand desperate rationalizations.

But for now, I have a recommendation for any seniors who empathize all too well with my worries. Three words: Recruiting Information Meetings.

Find them. They have food, lots of it. At the Boston Consulting Group's meeting, for example, I had three slices of pizza, around 10 chicken fingers, three cokes bagel chips and other assorted hors d'oeurvres.

I also had a stomach ache, but it was an emotionally satisfying pain. Think of it as advance compensation for the emotional trauma of being turned down for a job. And if that rationale doesn't suit you, I refer you to the age old maxim of desperate college students from all eras...

Eat, drink, for tomorrows, we die.

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Daniel Mufson '91 has been barred from the Office of Career Services.

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