<p>I am sorry first of all for asking a dumb question... But I still don't get what intership is...
What exactly is it???
I heard it's good for you and bad for you at sametime.... They told me it's good to do it during my highschool year specially over the summer..
Something like i work somewhere but i dont get paid?? How is this good for my future or college??</p>
<p>Experience matters.</p>
<p>Any internship for a college student that’s worth a damn will be paid. High school students… well, you’re pretty much just getting introduced to the work world.</p>
<p>So it is useless to highschool students?? Like a junior?</p>
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<p>not necessarily true.</p>
<p>You can get permanent job offers and make invaluable contacts from unpaid internships. Each opportunity should be looked at individually, and not with blanket statements.</p>
<p>So we’re going to discount an internship with almost every major media corporation (Time Warner/CNN, MTV, etc.) just because they are unpaid?</p>
<p>I don’t think so.</p>
<p>Sadly, with the current economic climate, many companies are shifting to unpaid internships. While ethically questionable, they are no less valuable for the skills and networking that one can acquire.</p>
<p>Unpaid internships are not just “ethically questionable,” they are morally evil. Only rich people can afford to work for free. Particularly in journalism, this is pernicious because only rich people can get on the ladder, leaving out a huge segment of the population and making the profession less diverse and less reflective of the society it serves. Little wonder, then, that consumption of traditional media is plunging among the current generation. Has MTV been relevant since the iPod was released?</p>
<p>If you, and people like you, are willing to work for free, why ever hire anyone?</p>
<p>:lol: at the morally evil comment. Those companies don’t owe anything to anyone and if a student thinks the experience itself warrants work with no pay then I think it speaks volumes for the experience that firm is offering.</p>
<p>Or it speaks to the desperation of the student.</p>
<p>Did you know that 12000 people applied to intern at the State Department for the current summer, where the vast majority of positions are unpaid? Obviously these are very desperate students with minimal qualifications. It is really sad that they have to suffer through applying to the State Department for a summer internship because they can’t get a more prominent internship that pays money.</p>
<p>/sarcasm</p>