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For former BL SAs who had young children during their summers - did you do all of the evening social activities with your class?

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Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:47 am

For former BL SAs who had young children during their summers - did you do all of the evening social activities with your class?

Speaking on behalf of my married-with-children classmates, no. Most tried to pop into at least a couple, especially the virtual ones that provided more flexibility. But even people who were as single as a pringle (like myself) did not go to all the events.

This is dependent on the size of the summer class. The larger the summer class, the less important. I would try to be flexible on those days and duck out of the office early and head to events late or something.

Parent of two during my SA. It was a virtual summer, so it made it a little easier. I tried to make the office-specific activities because my office's class was pretty small (<10 SAs), but I did very few of the firm-wide ones. I don't think anyone even noticed; if they did, they didn't care.

i did one all summer, and nobody ever said anything. if youre at a 100% offer firm, and your work is decent, I can't imagine it would matter for getting a return offer (it might matter for networking for future benefit, though)

In the before times, at a firm with multiple events per week, we had an single parent SA in my summer class. She made it clear to recruiting up front that she would arrange for childcare and attend one after hours event per week and not the others. Setting expectations never hurts.