by Sarah M. Wang During my very first week of college, one of my internship directors said something that shook me to my core. She told us to bring our resumes to the meeting and proceeded to say, “You see everything under the ‘Experience’ section? Delete it.” To add insult to injury, she went and crossed out all of our high school leadership positions, awards, and achievements. I was shocked, to say the least. Everything I had worked so hard to accomplish during the past four years went out the window just like that.
Though I could hardly bear to part with my prized accolades at the time, I understand now that it was a bittersweet but necessary farewell to my high school self. If I walked into an interview boasting about being prom queen or SMW President, my potential employers would have laughed and shown me the door. In college, there are thousands of ASB presidents and valedictorians — luckily for Arcadia High School students, there’s nothing quite like DCI.
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