James Muench, a 22-year-old business student at the University of Maryland, College Park, interned at Lehman Brothers on Wall Street this past summer.

He received a job offer from the bank, which recently was bought by the British bank Barclays Plc.

The offer, he says he was told, still stands, but he has not accepted it.

Muench spoke with The Examiner about how he had been hoping to work for Lehman, and now what it’s like to watch that company collapse.

What were you thinking when you watched your potential future employer collapse on Wall Street?

You see Lehman on the front page [of the newspaper]. You try to see what the article is about: Is it good or bad? Of course, it wasn’t usually good. And, of course, you catch a lot of grief from your peers.