<p>is it possible to intern after the first year itself? </p>
<p>can some of you please list some colleges which hire first year's
i am going to brown. </p>
<p>the main reason i want one is, i don want to go home during the summer</p>
<p>Um...I did.</p>
<p>It's not difficult. Many freshman are able to secure them.</p>
<p>It's pretty normal, I think? I did my first internship while a first-year.</p>
<p>depends on the major , its not impossible but its definitely not easy. If you are an international student then you will struggle a lot more , it is rare for a freshman to end up with an internship.</p>
<p>But I think that really depends on the internship in question. If you're looking to do some kind of advanced biochemistry work or write at a major newspaper, that's probably not going to happen. But there are lots of local and/or less specialized internships people can do.</p>
<p>Actually, some internships are specifically reserved for first- and second-year students, like at the Cloisters in Manhattan, one I wish I had done. NASA has an entire program dedicated to first-year internships. State legislatures and departments often take first-year students, though you'd have a hard time finding an internship at the federal level. NGOs and non-profits love enthusiastic young people. There are plenty of possibilities.</p>
<p>can you tell me more about the NASA internship?</p>
<p>Don't know a blessed thing about it, but I bet Google can help: <a href="http://space.gsfc.nasa.gov/cfip/%5B/url%5D">http://space.gsfc.nasa.gov/cfip/</a></p>
<p>"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be inviting 16 college freshmen to participate in the College Freshmen Intern Program (CFIP). CFIP is a 2-week pilot program designed to attract currently enrolled college freshmen with little or no NASA intern experience who demonstrate a strong interest and ability in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). They will be introduced to scientists, engineers, technologists, university faculty, and other college interns positioned to inspire them to consider careers in space science and engineering.</p>
<p>By promoting the program in local colleges and universities, we also hope to extend the pipeline to previously untapped underrepresented groups to enhance the diversity of our interns and our workforce. CFIP is intended to be a feeder program to other intern/co-op programs at NASA/Goddard.</p>
<p>The program dates are June 6 - June 17. Students must provide their own housing and transportation to and from NASA/Goddard."</p>
<p>It's ridiculously easy to find internships after your first year. I'm working at a powerful and influential Boston nonprofit (which also does a lot of lobbying work), several of my friends are working at national headquarters for political organizations (especially Democracy for America), a few friends are working at the UN, some are interning at various labs and hospitals, and I have quite a few working in federal level government internships either with a department or with a senator or congressman.</p>
<p>All first years. I've found that it's rare for a first year to NOT have an internship. Those who don't seem to have more trouble getting better internships in later years.</p>
<p>I had an internship after my first year. I would say it's pretty hard to get one because a lot of employers don't want first years since they don't really have the knowledge or experience compared to upperclassmen.</p>
<p>hey SilverClover,</p>
<p>you stated that you have friend's intern-ing/working at the UN after their first-year?
how did he or she secure the job and what do they do exactly? i'm interested as for myself and i didn't know it was possible to apply to the UN after your 1st year.</p>
<p>The only reason its harder to intern as a freshman is that unlike upperclassmen, companies don't come look for you. You have to go out and find it visa-vi connections, career center postings, and even cold calling. I landed a pretty good job with an interesting small company. I was subjected to ***** work at times but I was given some pretty big responsibilities and internal company information. I found it through a connection. I did an interview (for a job I really wanted) but that didn't work out but it was close.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, are there any international internships for underclass students in college?</p>
<p>it's fairly easy to get an NSF REU research internship after your freshman year-</p>
<p>Amen, to racnna. Just develop a good connection with your profs who will write recs for you and you will be golden for REUs and SURFs. Coming from a FOURTH TIER public school, I landed SURFs and NSF-REUs at UT-Austin, Cal Tech and Yale among others. I didn't choose to attend them (chose NYC internship), but if someone needs help with the process, I don't mind helping out.</p>
<p>Yeah its not bad. I got an internship at fortune 500 pharm company and Im an english major. I got to URoch. There are a couple of interns from brown here as well, a good friend of mine. </p>
<p>also try talking to you school's career services, they can be a huge help in tracking down interships.</p>