A liberal arts education values knowledge for its own sake, cultivating well-rounded citizens beyond the narrow confines of pre-professionalism. Yet Anna Yost PO ’28 argues that both pre-professional students and academia-focused students at Pomona are disconnected from practical skills necessary outside the classroom.
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OPINION: LinkedIn is not our end-all be-all
Reader, I’d like to connect. As students at institutions that put heavy weight and pressure on being pre-professional, many of our inboxes are flooded with such emails, declarations of new internships, publications and achievements. Kabir Raina CM ’28 believes that we can afford to take our foot of the gas when it comes to building the perfect LinkedIn.
“We make fun of people obsessed with social media, so why do we not do the same for those obsessed with LinkedIn? We’ve made it one and the same. College LinkedIn is where students ‘do it for the ‘gram’ ‘ and internships are the new ‘functions.’ “
LinkedIn culture at the 5Cs
LinkedIn, widely used by students to connect with peers and potential employers in their industry, fosters a competitive culture complete with a professional linguistic bent. Students noted that LinkedIn sometimes feels more like another form of social media, where users curate resumes as part of their online persona.