<p>I'm a first year at Penn. Got a research assistant position over the first half of the summer for an entreprenurial research center. Then an internship at CSFB for the other half.</p>
<p>the summer after h.s. finished I did an internship at UBS. Now after freshman year i'm doing an internship at a large semiconductor company in their business development and strategy division. It's a pretty cool job and the pay is amazing.</p>
<p>To get an internship, would you simply send the person an e-mail? If yes, what would you include in that e-mail?</p>
<p>Sup, if you're in college, you will need a resume AND cover letter. Simply emailing once you do a blessed thing.</p>
<p>I got an internship as an incoming high school senior at Reuters news agency. I sent them an email of intent and a resume, and they let me write and publish several news articles.</p>
<p>I just applied for a summer internship at the CIA. Doubt Ill get it though.</p>
<p>As a rising senior I got an internship with a state senator in the statehouse.</p>
<p>how much do internships help you? I mean, seeing how so many people do it, it doesn't really make you stand out THAT much does it?</p>
<p>going to be a second-year in college, just completed a paid summer internship with boeing. </p>
<p>(dang, i thought i was paid well until i saw rpope's $16k!!!) </p>
<p>mahras,
how did you convince the law firm to accept you even though you're not even in law school yet? also, was your internship paid?</p>
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<p>if you're planning to enter the workforce, internships mean almost EVERYTHING. these days, no internship = crappy first job. internships stand out a lot on the resume... and internships with top employers in your field or with great experience is a big boost to getting hired. employers would rather take a chance on someone who has had real life work experience than a college student with only a GPA. </p>
<p>you know how everyone in high school tries to get a bunch of EC's, leadership, volunteer work, etc. to boost their college applications?</p>
<p>well, once you enter college, the new version of the college application is the resume, and the new version of EC's are internships and work experience. </p>
<p>this of course, mostly applies if you plan to enter the workforce and don't plan to immediately pursue a graduate or professional degree. similarly though, if you plan to enter academia, then research is its equivalent to internships.</p>
<p>I went to Stanford Med to do research as an undergraduate over the summer through an AAPM fellowship. I am currently taking a semester off to do a different research program, ironically, at Stanford again; this time at the Nat'l lab: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), through the US Dept. of Energy SULI program. In January I will be going to do research at Duke Med (Center for in vivo Microscopy).</p>
<p>Next summer? I could go to UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, MGH, The WhiteHead Institute at MIT, Harvard Nanoscale Engineering Center, or Yale School of Medicine. It will be a touch choice. </p>
<p>It's all about going after what you want and showing pure interest and enthusiasm. Give yourself options. There are research and internship opportunities everywhere. There are undergraduate programs that do all the work for you if you get accepted. If not, find someone who is doing something that you think is cool, and bug the hell out of them.</p>
<p>goodness, I've been trying to get an internship at argonne for the longest time. Apparently no one my dad knows wants a high school student to intern for them. Well, then again you can't go into the laboratory unless your 18 or older.</p>
<p>I ended up getting a temporary job (I guess it could be considered an internship) through my high school Computer Science teacher. His brother was working at an engineering firm and they needed an IT person in there to do a lot of maintenance work on their crappy computer network they had and clean up their website. I was hired for that position.</p>
<p>The next year I somehow got a job (more like an internship since it's a "seasonal staff position") at a theme park and got to work with the Information Systems staff for the summer and fall. I got that by getting help with my career center at school. I applied for their little program they had and I searched through tons of listings on their system. And one day I got a phone call from the theme park. And it goes from there.</p>
<p>It's all about connections. And you also have to really get your butt out there and find something.</p>
<p>What I really want to know is how these companies get away without paying workers. As an employer, I am quite aware that anyone performing functions benefiting my company has to be paid. They have to be covered by workman's comp and I have to comply with wage and hour laws. I can't have someone hanging around who is not producing and working and benefiting me -- so I have to pay them.</p>
<p>What is it with these unpaid internships -- and when we figure it out, -- anyone want an unpaid internship focusing on animal care and retail displays?</p>
<p>I really hated the internship I just did for the fall (the fact that made it even worse was that it was UNPAID). I guess this is what internships are really about. Needless to say, I will not be taking the offer to stay on with that company.</p>
<p>I am intrested in this company and I am not sure if they have internships or not. Do I send an email asking if they do with a resume attached or no?</p>
<p>rpope, I'm going to be a freshman at Harvard this fall and I live in Virginia. Your internship seems amazing. Could you post or email me (<a href="mailto:baschwank@aol.com">baschwank@aol.com</a>) the name of the company?</p>
<p>Right, I just joined and I'm going to post this everywhere I can think of in the hope someone can help me ; )
I'm from Scotland, and I'm currently a senior in high school (well, our equivalent). I used to live in the US when I was small, and spend most of my summers in Ithaca, NY. Hopefully I'm going to Cambridge next year to study Political Science.
I'm planning on moving back to the US when I finish at university, and want to work in American politics. For this reason I really want an internship this summer.
Since I'm not a US citizen and I won't be enrolled in college yet, how likely do you think it will be for me to get one? And is there anywhere in particular I should try? I've got a long list of people and organizations to try, but since I'm no-one's constituent it's slightly harder for me. I do have extremely good grades and think I can get some good letters of recommendation, which might help me.
Any ideas would be much appreciated, thanks.</p>
<p>I live in the capitol of CA, and my dad works in state government. I know for interning at the governor's office, governor.ca.gov, you submit an application that is fairly basic. They accept about 40 interns each term/summer. Do you have somewhere to stay this summer? I'm going to be interning in the Communications office for the CA Dept. of Education, because I have the opportunity for a more involved internship there than at the Gov's office. </p>
<p>What is your living situation this summer, because there are many state governments that you can easily get an internship in that will be very good experience, and likely more indepth than working in D.C. A lot of college students migrate to my city for the summer because the state government infrastructure is based here. Plenty of local campaigns also need help, and they don't really care whose constituent you are, so long as you are willing to work. It depends on the scale and scope of your idea of an internship-- oftentimes the best experiences and most learning come out of a seemingly "smalltime" job, such as working for a state assemblyperson. Also, the CA governor's race is heating up, I have friends who are hoping to intern for one of the democratic challengers (specifically Angelides).</p>
<p>College freshman D just heard yesterday she has a summer internship with a genetics research institute which is connected with a local university. (She is not a student at this school). It will most likely be unpaid ( waiting for the most recent grant award to see if interns are in the budget) but still will be incredibly helpful in her understanding of what being a biomedical engineer (her major) will entail. As it is unpaid, she will have to work part-time at another job for some income and they are understanding of this. She also wants to take a summer school course and if the course at this university is approved by her current university, she can receive a significant discount as a university employee. That would be a great substitute for an actual paycheck and not something she had realized was a possibility when she first applied.</p>
<p>She learned about the Institute through a newspaper article published months ago. She kept the article and recently contacted the Institute by email about summer internships. She's home on Spring Break and was able to complete an in person interview after doing all of the basics, resume', etc. by email with the director.</p>