Lemme share with y'all what I remember of my journey of trying finding an internship for summer 2015 when I was a sophomore
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I had just finished my first year of college and did a mobile development internship with Time Inc where I built a mobile app for ET Weekly
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I also launched
@WeReadTooApp that August. So I went to grace hopper with my résumé which showed I had experience in the following:1 reply 5 retweets 41 likes -
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Working with a team collaboratively, I was a programmer for a lab on campus
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Working in a corporate environment & communicating across teams, at Time Inc. had to work with writers, product mgmt, marketing etc
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Building things: Contributed to open source, had my own site, built TWO iOS apps, projects on Github etc
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So I went to Grace Hopper, Oct 2015 expecting that with all the experience I described above, I could find opportunities at software co's
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I thought WRONG. At the career fair I struggled to have recruiters even take my resume from my HAND.
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Same but nobody cares because I'm not a minority or woman
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