Natasha Singer

So, I mean, the cycle began again.

I think I did a little less.

I think I hit 70, 71 applications during senior year, interviews for about three or four.

But this year, he actually does get one offer for a summer internship.

It's application development.

So it's what I've been looking for for the past four years.

And after graduating college in May, he gets this internship at an Ohio state government agency where he's developing apps.

But he does not have a full-time job offer.

This whole time I've been applying to jobs over the summer.

So it's just, yeah, it's just really frustrating.

You know, I asked him about it, and he had a very nuanced view of

Yeah, I think it was jobs will be plentiful.

I won't run into crazy monetary risks.

And also I'll get to create what I want.

I think that was a big draw.

You know, he did not expect to instantly move out to Silicon Valley and land a big tech job and make a lot of money.

I think when you tell every young person for several years, computer science is the place to be, they start to believe that.

And then all of a sudden, everybody has a computer science degree.

So it's very difficult to feel like you're competing against this mass quantity of people and also feel like you don't have a way to make yourself stand out.

At least for the moment, he feels like too many kids bought the tech industry marketing and decided to major in computer science.