Natasha Singer

Wait, sorry, can I just interject for a minute here?

Sure.

In the fall of 2023, you applied to 90 different internship programs for the next summer in tech.

You got a couple of interviews, but no internship offers?

What kind of companies were you applying to?

This was anything in Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, anything around kind of Midwest area, probably midsize, I'd say.

Right.

The thing that's striking is many students I spoke to applied to 90, hundreds, maybe even thousands of jobs and didn't get a single offer.

And neither does Nathan.

Yeah.

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.