<p>I'm only a college freshman and my university doesn't begin offering internships until the summer semester of the sophomore year. I noticed my local community college offers an engineering internship for the summer. Does anyone know of any cases of community colleges or other institutions offering this? Is it legit?</p>
<p>Internships aren’t offered through school… they’re offered through companies. You can work whenever, wherever you want. Or are you actually talking about research?</p>
<p>if by internship at your school you mean working under a professor doing mostly research work then it is not legit. </p>
<p>a real internship is one working with a company as if youre a real employee. although an “internship” with a professor can help you get a real one it doesnt substitute for an internship.</p>
<p>Sorry I’m an idiot. I meant that my school does a co-op where I work for a private company for a semester(and the school organizes it). I’m assuming that would also be what the community college I was looking into was offering. Sorry for the misunderstanding.</p>