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Articles of Interest - Internships

The articles in this section relate to internships. For more information about internships, visit our Career Resource Room and/or make an appointment with one of our career counselors.

Important information for students facing difficulty registering for internships directly through their departments: You can enroll in General Studies 200 or 400 (depending on your class level) and get academic credit for your internship. You must have faculty approval, and there are other requirements. Read more at the Division of Undergraduate Studies (PDF).

If you come across an article - online or in print - you think we should add to this section, please email Yiftach Levy at ylevy@mail.sdsu.edu with a link or pointer to the article.

Internships Articles
Internships: The Best Place to Start - BusinessWeek's list of 50 Best Internships (direct link to BusinessWeek article) Elana Gerasimova spent the summer of 2006 working as an intern for JPMorgan's emerging markets desk. The University of Pennsylvania senior enjoyed the summer in New York because of the variety of tasks she was given and the executives she had the opportunity to work with. "They really made... (read entire article at BusinessWeek site)
Interns, Get Moving Right about now, on college campuses around the country, midterm anxiety is heating up. The football season is in full swing. And any advance planning will probably focus on winter-break ski trips. But savvy students are thinking long-term. Career experts concur: the time to ...(read entire article)
Gaining Insight from Internships Some argue that an MBA is just a piece of paper, and an expensive one at that. For any career switcher, it can provide a bridge from one career or role to a new one. For those of us who are not career switchers, but rather are trying to rise within the competitive ranks of the industry... (read entire article)
For Internship, A Spill Is No Setback With the temperature close to 100F, we stopped at a gas station to pick up something to drink. Since I don't drink soda, I settled for a glass of cranberry juice. Phil, my boss, cautioned it was important to keep ourselves adequately hydrated in the hot, humid weather of Texas. When I got into... (read entire article)
What's Love Got to Do with Internships? My dating career was always an accident waiting to happen. Like my neighbor's dog's daily attempts to catch a car, I raced towards the exciting and flashy, without much of a plan for what would happen if I actually caught it. I was normally left with little to show for my efforts except... (read entire article)
The New World of Internships Like many of his new classmates at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, freshman Cory Hipps spent the summer working. But instead of stocking jeans at the mall or pulling sodas at the Dairy Queen, Hipps, 18, clocked 9-to-5 days at the accounting firm Deloitte, testing software... (read entire article)
Post-College Internships Are you a recent college grad still looking for a job and unsure of how to take the first step on your career path? Don't rule out a post-graduate internship or temporary job placement. Although internships are mostly known as a tool for people still in college, both internships and temp... (read entire article)

Internships Articles

Internships: The Best Place to Start - BusinessWeek's list of 50 Best Internships (direct link to BusinessWeek article)

Elana Gerasimova spent the summer of 2006 working as an intern for JPMorgan's emerging markets desk. The University of Pennsylvania senior enjoyed the summer in New York because of the variety of tasks she was given and the executives she had the opportunity to work with. "They really made... (read entire article at BusinessWeek site)

Interns, Get Moving

Right about now, on college campuses around the country, midterm anxiety is heating up. The football season is in full swing. And any advance planning will probably focus on winter-break ski trips. But savvy students are thinking long-term. Career experts concur: the time to ...(read entire article)

Gaining Insight from Internships

Some argue that an MBA is just a piece of paper, and an expensive one at that. For any career switcher, it can provide a bridge from one career or role to a new one. For those of us who are not career switchers, but rather are trying to rise within the competitive ranks of the industry... (read entire article)

For Internship, A Spill Is No Setback

With the temperature close to 100F, we stopped at a gas station to pick up something to drink. Since I don't drink soda, I settled for a glass of cranberry juice. Phil, my boss, cautioned it was important to keep ourselves adequately hydrated in the hot, humid weather of Texas. When I got into... (read entire article)

What's Love Got to Do with Internships?

My dating career was always an accident waiting to happen. Like my neighbor's dog's daily attempts to catch a car, I raced towards the exciting and flashy, without much of a plan for what would happen if I actually caught it. I was normally left with little to show for my efforts except... (read entire article)

The New World of Internships

Like many of his new classmates at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, freshman Cory Hipps spent the summer working. But instead of stocking jeans at the mall or pulling sodas at the Dairy Queen, Hipps, 18, clocked 9-to-5 days at the accounting firm Deloitte, testing software... (read entire article)

Post-College Internships

Are you a recent college grad still looking for a job and unsure of how to take the first step on your career path? Don't rule out a post-graduate internship or temporary job placement. Although internships are mostly known as a tool for people still in college, both internships and temp... (read entire article)

If you have any resources you'd like to see added to this site, or any other comments, please contact Yiftach Levy at ylevy@mail.sdsu.edu.