Advice For Us Lesser Ivy-Leaguers

Sifting through the Gawker archives, we came across an entertaining little piece on intern horror stories. Normally, laughing at others' follies is super entertaining; however, upon reaching the final vignette, "Why You Cannot Trust Ivy Leaguers Even If They Appear To Be Hardworking And Eager To Please (And Also Attend Lesser Ivies)", we realized that the joke was on us!

An undisclosed Philadelphia publication submitted a novelesque account detailing the horrors of their Penn intern "Jennifer Aniston". Although they explicitly state "We do NOT consider Penn students for internships, for reasons that would be obvious to anyone who's ever lived in any kind of proximity to Penn, and Philadelphia's radical allergy to the kind of senses of entitlement for which Penn students are widely known," Jennifer seemed like an eager beaver and they bent the rules. While admitting Jennifer was a "really, really great intern," the moral of their story simply reminded them: no Penn students allowed.

While an embarrassing anecdote for us Quakers, at least the publication used a pseudonym... unlike today's Gawker intern expose of Hailey Mac Arthur. An intern at her small town paper, the Colorado Springs Gazette, she thought nobody would notice if she plagiarized the New York Times. Oops! Now her mistakes (and an embarrassing blog post) are up on Gawker for all to see.

So what's the real moral of the story? Don't be a shitty intern because you then your boss will write mean things about you and send it into Gawker.