<p>I'm a freshman and I managed to get a position at this pharmaceutical company for the summer, except they aren't going to pay me (stupid economy). Are there any programs at Cornell where Cornell would pay me to work there? (Sorry if this is a stupid question.)</p>
<p>no, there isn't.</p>
<p>Actually, there is:</p>
<p>Cornell</a> University The Cornell Tradition</p>
<p>But you only get to use it for one of your summers, and most don't use it as a freshmen. All the more encouragement to apply to be a Tradition Fellow.</p>
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<p>This should be outlawed. It's fricking slave labor. How are hard-working, capable lower class individuals supposed to get into these fields if the process requires working for free?</p>
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This should be outlawed. It's fricking slave labor. How are hard-working, capable lower class individuals supposed to get into these fields if the process requires working for free?
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<p>For once, I think we agree with something, dontno.</p>
<p>talk to your advisor and see if you can get credit for it if it's unpaid.</p>
<p>if you can, that's, in a roundabout way, getting "paid" for it - a somewhat free credit.</p>
<p>If you are offered work-study financial aid for the academic year, you can try the "develop your own internship" work-study program. It reimburses your summer internship employer for up to 60% of wages. Maybe you could negotiate with them for an hourly wage of 7 or 8 dollars, in which case they would really only have to pay you about 3 dollars an hour, and will be reimbursed for the rest. You have to fill out an application and show that it is related to your education, and of course, be eligible for work-study as well. I did this for one summer at Cornell; it wasn't required for the job I had, but I figured I would give them a break and fill out an application anyway, and I was approved in a couple days. </p>
<p>No, you shouldn't work for free. If it's free, your employer probably wouldn't spend the time to train you either. </p>
<p>I have a few open positions at work that I couldn't fill right now due to head count freeze. When my daughter told me how hard it is for her friends to get summer jobs, I convinced HR to let me hire a few summer interns instead.</p>
<p>I would suggest for you to tap into some of your friendship/relationship now. Many firms are cutting back, but work still needs to get done. It is a lot cheaper to get some smart college students to do reports, spreadsheets than to hire temps. Many of those internships are not advertised.</p>
<p>One other thing I would do is to register with temp agencies. Many firms have cut back so much they do not have enough coverage when people go on vacation, they may need temps when most employees go on vacation in the summer.</p>
<p>The fact that a pharmaceutical company doesn't want to pay you is absurd given the massive economic rents they soak up.</p>
<p>I suppose they just want to plow more money into their advertising schemes for erectile dysfunction drugs.</p>
<p>Oh no! Wait Isn't Cornell a major research university? One of the main things I'm looking for in a college is the ability to do undergraduate research, are these programs really competitive or hard to get or something? Or is it just hard to find a paid one?</p>
<p>It horrible that ypu cant find a paid job! They should know no one wants to work for free</p>
<p>He's not working for Cornell.</p>
<p>There are plenty of research opportunities, you just might have to do some of the work applying for grants. Not that hard, Engineering Learning Initiatives alone gives grants for summer research for freshmen students.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies guys. </p>
<p>Are there any freshmen here who HAVE found a (paid) job for the summer? What is it and how did you do it?</p>
<p>I found a research position at a major midwestern university with a grant from the American Chemical Society funding me.</p>
<p>It was in an e-mail newsletter from the Engineering College, and I just was eager and sent the research advisor an e-mail along with a curriculum vitae and asked my faculty advisor to send a letter of rec. :)</p>
<p>I'm a freshman AEM major and I found an unpaid internship working for a hedge fund doing trade research. But I'm also using it as credit too.</p>