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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/summer-break/)
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.
Breaks literally “break” up the natural week-to-week rhythm of the semester. In many ways that’s great, but when it comes to juggling workloads, it creates its own unique challenges that many of us don’t like to acknowledge. As someone that thrives on organization, it’s easy to capitalize on the momentum of a structured schedule week after week. Many of us develop innate rhythms; going to the library every Sunday for example. These rhythms take time and tweaking to develop and are thrown off by the sudden absence of a workload, even if only for a brief time.