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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?
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?
if by internship at your school you mean working under a professor doing mostly research work then it is not legit.
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.
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.
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