Are Summer Internships Worth it?

OboeWhizzy
Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:07:19 +0000

@Wyanokie
I got mine through a connection; the place I’m doing it at this summer is where one of my family members works, so it was fairly easy for me. I didn’t have to apply or anything, because the manager knows me and he said it would be fine.
I also have older friends who did internships at colleges, Allied Health, and other research labs. That’s a bit harder if you don’t have a connection, but if you contact the professor/person in charge and send a persuasive personal letter, they might consider accepting you. Lots of colleges offer internships, but they aren’t really broadcast and sold like their summer programs are (you can probably guess why!), so you have to go looking for those.
I heard that Rutgers has a good summer internship thing at their engineering lab.

@IxnayBob
Thanks!