Summer Soliciting

It's yet another cold and cloudy Ithaca day. In other news, pigs still can't fly.

For the past few months, I, like many other college students, have been involved in this horrific thing known as the job and internship application process. I've sent a number of job applications out, and am sending more by the day, it seems. It really appears that companies try their best to screw you over though, if I'm not mistaken.

Job applications
Are just like college ones, but
Without safety schools


Really, think about it- you apply to a bunch of jobs, and are expected to do so by a certain time. Then, they decide that they will never ever get back to you, and you end up screwed over because by the time you find out you didn't get it, it's too late to apply for other jobs. And I don't think there's such thing as a safety job (except maybe those officers who help kids cross the street (bad pun)). Personally, I would much rather hear back from a job saying that I didn't get it than not hear back from it at all. And I think that's the case with most people. So please, when you're reading those cover letters and decide a candidate's not fit for the job, maybe you should let them know, so they can try for something else? Or just leave them screwed over and playing video games in their basements all day long.