Rachel Stern-Stein is the typical Penn student, living the life and spending the summer interning at a top-notch investment bank. As she plugs away in her cubicle, a brilliant idea comes to mind: If Lauren Conrad can write a semi-autobiographical account of her life, why can’t I? An avid Danielle Steel fan and having taken ENGL 039.313: “Self-Help and Literature,” Rachel S-S brings you her finest work. So come laugh, cry and sigh with Summer Street’s installments of “The Intern.”
Rachel daintily slipped on her nude panty hose, carefully gliding her French-manicured fingernails over the nylon, ensuring not to ruin her perfectly appropriate business ensemble. You know what they say: sloppy stockings mean sloppy stocks, and sloppy stocks at a new I-banking internship… what a financial faux pas! She glanced at her Radioshack clock-radio, the bright red digital numbers taunting her: 8:20 a.m. Slipping on her not-too-high two-inch heels, she scurried out the door and casually walked — as not to break a sweat — down 40th Street. Stopped at the corner of Walnut, she pensively gazed at the sun as it glistened off the black solar powered garbage receptacles, and thought to herself, why was she one of the lucky ones that so luckily landed the prestigious Philadelphia Geldman Socks summer intern position?
As she trod off the subway car onto the platform, with the first of many steps she would take into that overwhelmingly sticky station, flutters like those of a butterfly’s wings as it first emerges from the cocoon unexpectedly inundated her stomach. Nonetheless, she approached the dauntingly tall skyscraper and entered with the intent of a bee as it searches for pollen. The office was filled with wide-eyed summer staffers. She noticed one name tagged Craig Clooney (Maybe he is related to George, she hoped). Seating herself next to him she nervously pulled out her Blackberry, feigning BBM conversations. As she stared at her reflection on her phone’s screen she reflected on her morning and the summer ahead. Rachel knew she was in store for a summer she would never ever forget...
