10:07 pm: "What are you doing this summer?
Everyone always asks "what are you doing this summer?"
What are you doing to fill up all that wasted time you have during the summer? Is this just a Jewish thing? I mean do people really care THAT much outside of the crazy over achiving Jewish world? This I don't know. It might be enough for someone to say "Oh I'm getting a part time job and hanging out" that would NEVER fly for a Yeshiva U student, unless the job was being called an "internship" and get little to no pay to get coffee for important people. Then its somthing already. Summer school...thats ok. That means you are going to get out of college resonabully on time. And you might actually have a decent GPA becuase other schools grade nicely, while YU grades with full intent for you to not get into Med/law school. They make your life a missery. They say "you want that A? lets see.....how little sleep can you go on?" and thats just ONE class....I take seven. seven classes that want to take your soul. And they wonder why I get b+'s.
"What are you doing this summer?"
Wonder what would happen if I said "I will be driving around the east coast trying out all the beachs to see which is the most relaxing."
"Ohhhh....thats....nice"
No, no one thinks that is nice, unless of course you are planing on writing a top seller guid book to beachs and make your millions so none of your grandchildren will ever have to work again. If you have charts, and rate the beahcs in five compeative catagorys, with equations to figure out the winner....if you take all the joy out of sitting on the beach...then we can talk. Then it might be lagit.
YU students, well we have Resemes to make. We have school activitys to plan, we have people to date and weddings to attend. Forget that we have weddings to plan...but thats not such a good ecuse eirther.
"What are you doing this summer?"
Planing my Wedding.
"Oh....thats it?"
Why no! I am planing a wedding, and I am interning with the circut court of appeal....3erd circut...the important one. I will also be taking 2 masters level law courses so I can get out a semester early so I can start haveing my 100 kids and well....be a lawer. But I want to be a judge...oh and have i mentioned we are thinking of moving to Israel?
then maybe that will be enough. And when the flowars at the wedding are not right, and the food is to saulty...then they say "well look at what she did last summer, she should get her prioritys straight."
"What are you doing this summer?"
Your expected to be everything to everyone. Always smialing, always pretty, always dressed to kill in thouse shoes that kill you. Your kids are all dressed in a row, no one ever fights or yells or is up all night. Dinner is always on time and never burnt. Shabbos is always 5 courses of delight! And you smile, you smile all the way thorugh...you smile when you get up to make lunches, you smile when you send the kids off to school, you smile as you dress for work, you smile as you coummute. You smile as you sit at your desk and show the world you are a high powered women, who runs a house of 8 kids and a husband and siddur plays and Bar Mitzvahs. Because thats what you did last summer. You got a good connection at your Dadddys office and you got into Law school even though you had morning sickness before the LSATs, but your loveing Husband drove you to the test and kissed you on the forhead goodbye. You got into that law school, and you got thouse grades, and you made thouse dinners, and you got the internships and job you were always expected to get. Becuase, your supper woman.
Thats what you did last summer.
