<p>When do people start applying for summer internships/plans/jobs? I'm a current freshman. How do you hear about these internships and such to apply for? I haven't heard a thing from my school about opportunities, applications, deadlines, etc.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Do most college students get an internship or something? What do they usually do? I was thinking of working as an intern at a bank or doing something science-related.</p>
<p>I think it might depend on what type of internship you’re applying for, but if you’re like me and you want to do a STEM research internship, you want to start applying over winter break. Spend Fall semester gathering sources for recommendations and writing your CV/cover letter. Then you can assemble everything over the winter and turn everything in early before the deadlines of February and March. (hint: early is the KEY to landing a good internship apart from the actual content of your application!)</p>
<p>thanks but any more info guys?</p>
<p>if you really want an internship/job, you’ll look for one yourself that suits your specific interests. you can’t expect us to just tell you all the jobs/internships in the world. google something you’re interested in and start from there.</p>
<p>I didn’t do my first one until the summer going into my 11th grade. I think having a license makes a huge difference, that and when you do your first internship, I think you really have to be settled into school like solid- like I can cram this AP Bio material down the day before a test in like 3 hrs. type of solid.
I’ve recieved a lot of internship offers with prominent organizations, which college and graduate level students typically do. I only do the internships where I have the most freedom to do whatever I want? basically.
Internships are ridiculously easy to get. You just find an organization that needs help in something- you say you just want to volunteer, don’t expect to get paid (most are unpaying btw)- and they’ll start calling you an intern soon enough. You don’t have to be that reliable b/c remember- you’re “just a volunteer.”
The internships I did were just with people I knew. Like I was talking to a girl about liking to write at a picnic one day and apparently she was working for a new section of a paper for an ethnic newspaper. From there, I went in with her- I didn’t care if I wasn’t old enough- and joined as well, and was offered a ton of internships then on just b/c I performed so well in this internship.
Once you go into an internship and aren’t performing really well, you could be cutting off potential resources or help in the future for when you really are qualified- so remember that (:</p>
<p>Find an ethnic group, a religious group (like lobbying, newspaper), a small medical organization (they could be very influential, but often times the non-Red Cross, non-huge hospital groups need a lot of help), someone you know- someone talking about their business, a congressman/woman is really easy to help out (they always need help), etc. I usu. get internship offers w/in a few minutes of talking to someone (not research science, b/c that’s a whole ton harder and you usu. have to know someone personally)- so if you can master that, then you’re really good.</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>McBainTrain has some sound advice.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m also a freshman and I know that there are plenty of internships on any school’s career site. You should try those out, I think most internships have February due dates.</p>