So to get straight to the point, my family apparently want to go to Hawaii this coming summer. For college-age male like me, I can think of few scenarios more brutally humiliating than family vacation to a tropical island where I have to watch shirtless chads and bikini-clad girls having the time of their lives while I am still alone being carted around by my parents as if I were a little kid. It invokes one of my favorite ER quotes—the one about how the beautiful environment is hell when you're alone.
Now I had been working on applying to a summer internship that could have shielded me from this reality by obligation. I had everything ready to go in my application except my cover letter. But then I became horribly ill for days and by the time I could function again it was time to study for final exams. Everything from this period is blurred together because of how sick and stressed I was. Finally, on my flight back home from college I began working on the letter again. Took a few days of rest and finished a complete draft today. Then I opened the application to find that at some point in the interim, the job posting was TAKEN DOWN
I blame myself for not being fast enough—at the very least, I could have had the sense to submit without the letter when shit started going south. My application was strong enough anyway. Anything would have been better than inaction, and that is a lesson I will remember. I will apply to more internships/jobs and hopefully land something for this summer to keep me off those stupid pacific slut rocks, but this is so fucking disappointing.
One thing though that was a bit fun—I said to my sibling (who knows I don't want to go), "I would rather go to Morocco than Hawaii"—hehehe cryptic reference
Now I had been working on applying to a summer internship that could have shielded me from this reality by obligation. I had everything ready to go in my application except my cover letter. But then I became horribly ill for days and by the time I could function again it was time to study for final exams. Everything from this period is blurred together because of how sick and stressed I was. Finally, on my flight back home from college I began working on the letter again. Took a few days of rest and finished a complete draft today. Then I opened the application to find that at some point in the interim, the job posting was TAKEN DOWN
I blame myself for not being fast enough—at the very least, I could have had the sense to submit without the letter when shit started going south. My application was strong enough anyway. Anything would have been better than inaction, and that is a lesson I will remember. I will apply to more internships/jobs and hopefully land something for this summer to keep me off those stupid pacific slut rocks, but this is so fucking disappointing.
One thing though that was a bit fun—I said to my sibling (who knows I don't want to go), "I would rather go to Morocco than Hawaii"—hehehe cryptic reference
