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Exploitation or Experience: Students Discuss Internship Pay Debate
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With many on the search for summer opportunities, students reflect on the merits of paid versus unpaid internships.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/internships/)
With many on the search for summer opportunities, students reflect on the merits of paid versus unpaid internships.
This summer, Cornellians hope to hold internships, vacation and explore the Ithaca area with less of a concern for COVID-19.
The Cornell in Washington program continues now transitioned into the public policy school and is hoping to increase alumni connections and better aid resources.
Students have struggled to find internships, from research to finance positions, throughout the pandemic, disrupting opportunities for Cornellians and students across the country.
To be honest, any situation that gives me more time to critically think and less time to make a fool of myself in front of a whiteboard, I am supportive of.
Students are left scrambling for summer jobs as COVID-19 throws a wrench in their plans.
Freshmen, furthering your career is important. But there are so many other things in your life to balance and treasure.
“The crux of interviewing is that people want to find out if they can sit next to you at 11pm and not hate themselves. If you pass that test, you have a very good shot at getting a role in finance,” Bobby Ma ’20
“At the end of the day, joining a business fraternity or any club on campus is for the people you meet and the relationships you form,” said Hyland. “My friends at PCT are some of my closest friends here at Cornell.”
“At the end of the day, joining a business fraternity or any club on campus is for the people you meet and the relationships you form,” said Hyland. “My friends at PCT are some of my closest friends here at Cornell.”