SMART Career Choices

POLLS : VAMPIRE LOAD — The Passive Drain

Students spend years “studying” but barely producing anything real. Not because they’re lazy but because the system trains them to absorb, not apply. Internships expose how much silent energy is drained without meaningful output.

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9️. The Task Avoidance Culture: College allows students to dodge work groups, proxies, deadline extensions. Internships expose this habit ruthlessly: no outputs = no growth.

Q9: How did your college habit of avoiding tasks show up in the internship?

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