Summer Spotlight: Sony Pictures Entertainment
This summer I interned at Sony Pictures Entertainment in the studio finance department. The studio lot is sort of like a campus; it occupies several hundred acres in the Culver City area of Los...
View ArticleUnpaid Internships: A Drag for Young People and Society
As demand for internships has skyrocketed with nearly every profession requiring some prior experience during high school and college, an explosion of unpaid internships have shaken up the labor...
View ArticleBuild A Skillset, Not a Curriculum
As resourceful undergraduates, most of us are trying to hedge out the risk of unemployment post-graduation in every possible way; some call it Northwestern’s careerist culture. We choose interesting...
View ArticleIs NU’s internship obsession harmful?
When a prospective student recently asked me if most Northwestern students get summer internships, I almost started laughing. If she could only hear the panicked conversations of Northwestern students...
View ArticleWhen an Unpaid Internship is Appropriate
Although I have been fortunate enough to attain paid internships, I have listened to many of my fellow Northwestern students describe their unpaid summer internships. Some helped to run non-profit...
View ArticleLikability is the Name of the Game: Cultural Matching and Homogeneity in the...
The curtain of 2014 summer internship recruitment has just closed … or not, for those who have not finalized their summer plans yet. While some students can’t wait to boast about their multiple offers...
View ArticleWeeded Out: the truth behind internship and job drug testing
Millions of Americans – around 25 million, according to government surveys – have smoked marijuana in the last year. And many of these Americans are current college students, some of who are gearing up...
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