Are Summer Internships Worth it?

Midhelper
Thu, 02 Jan 2014 02:07:52 +0000

In research lab experience for high schoolers is mint.

Office filing, coffee fetching sounds like a waste of time but it depends on what you are getting out of being in the environment. Are you talking to people? What are you observing, hearing, are they answering your questions? Being in the authentic environment of some jobs is just worth experiencing. But if you are fetching coffee and filing without paying attention to what is going on around you and you are not talking to anyone - that would be a waste of time maybe even in the President’s office.
Ask yourself if you would be able to write an essay on the internship experience in the context of the career.

Some business or other educational programs can be worthless too. I would risk and choose an internship over summer classes any day.