Kristen Roupenian

KRISTEN ROUPENIAN holds a PhD in English from Harvard, an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and a BA from Barnard College. She is the author of the short story “Cat Person,” which was published in The New Yorker and selected by Sheila Heti for The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018. You Know You Want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories was published in 2019.

My Generation Doesn’t Do Internships

Kristen Roupenian

I will be discussing only my own experience, but extrapolating beyond it to make a strong claim about some ill-defined, amorphous group of people whom I imagine to have experiences identical to my own. In other words, I’m writing a personal essay masquerading as a social critique. How very millennial of me.

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By Kristen Roupenian