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THE THIRD
METRIC
HUFFINGTON
02.23.14
A 21-Year-Old Intern Had to Die
to Get Wall Street to Change Its Ways
BY JILLIAN BERMAN
T’S NO SECRET that
banking interns work
extremely long hours,
frequently pull allnighters, earn little respect from
higher-ups and perform the most
I
tedious of tasks.
For several years, the Ivy
League’s best and brightest had
started to signal they wanted
something different from their
careers, quietly eschewing highpaying Wall Street gigs for jobs
in Silicon Valley or with nonprofits like Teach For America. Yet