For most business students, this coveted financial internship is an opportunity to get their foot in the door at Fortune 500 companies like Goldman Sachs or PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Mara is a senior at Emerson College and her fear this past summer was not whether she would get an internship but whether she would accept the right opportunity.
After Raphie blew away the crowd and judges (one of them offered him an internship at Facebook, another at Google), I had the opportunity to connect with him and chat about his project, how he learned to hack at the tender age of 15, and which companies excite him right now.