With summer jobs canceled and internships on hold, students struggle to pay for college.
Lena Murray, who studied ethnic studies and political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, before graduating this past spring, said this is the first summer that she does not have a stable job.She was slated to participate in a paid conservation research program in Alaska. Initially, she felt hopeful that the program would still be available, as Alaska had far fewer COVID-19 cases than most other areas in the U.S.
If all goes right, she hopes to start in fall of 2021, and she’ll be using some of the money she is making this summer to help pay for it.Hughes, on the other hand, is not sure how she will be able to pay her way through her final semester at Temple. “I use the money I make at the coffee shop to pay my rent, my groceries, my utilities, and more,” she said.
She was hoping she would be able to start work again as states began to reopen, but her manager at the coffee shop announced that he would not be rehiring any of the employees.For now, she’s relying on money she has been saving since her first year of college. “I’m lucky because I had always been planning on staying in Philadelphia after I graduated, so I’ve been saving money for a long time and I’m using that,” she said. “But I have hourly panic attacks about when unemployment will end.”“I’ve had a couple of internships in the past, so I’m hoping those will help me get a job after graduation. But if employers are not even able to take back their current employees, I think it’s going to be hard to find anyone who is hiring new employees,” she said.
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