In the Crimson, junior Eugene Kim writes that the current economic crisis should prompt students to reconsider “the trade-school mentality that has characterized our campus in recent decades.”

In particular, the annual ritual of the junior-year finance internship search—which has given rise to a disturbing sense of entitlement—must be reined in. It is one thing to offer valuable pre-professional opportunities to interested students; it is entirely another to create a disturbing subculture of hyper-competitiveness that destroys the very foundation of the liberal-arts education Harvard claims to offer.

A worthwhile thought. But in times of crisis, will people take Kim up on it? Or will they try even harder to nail down that still high-paying finance job?