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Op-Ed: Mowing Your Parents’ Lawn Will Build More Character Than an Internship
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Are you aware of how hot the tech and engineering industry is these days? I’m going to be working with an ancient, gasoline-guzzling, rusty push mower that my parents have refused to replace since the early 2000s.