Networking

Sam Biddle, a recent Philosophy grad, continues to describe his NYC job search:

I am not entirely sure what networking is, and I'm not sure anyone elseis either. I am somewhat sure that I am not doing it. I've been giventhe gist of it before. I know that it's all about meeting the right people, and making new contacts, and following upand other italicized things. L___ takes it upon himself now and then toexplain it to me—frustrated, exasperated—how one can turn a strangerinto an employer...