This summer, hopes were high for the company because it was selling generic versions of paclitaxel, the powerful cancer-fighting drug that Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people) sells under the brand name Taxol.
The summer for a recent grad without a trust fund means work, usually at an internship full ofhighhopes that their time toiling away at a reception desk or filing old magazines at The Atlantic in Washington will one day lead them to a full time job at CNN.