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‘Tonight Show’ fan travels Europe with Jimmy Fallon cutout, hoping for internship
The account was created by Northeastern University student Halle O’Conor, who’s hoping to score an internship at “The Tonight Show.” O’Conor got the idea from her mother, who once took trips with a “Flat Stanley” (a paper doll based on a popular 1964 children’s book featuring a little boy who is flattened by a book […]
Xconomy
Intern season is here—but companies need a better hiring strategy
It’s summer and that means intern season is in full swing. According to a recent Washington Post piece by Jeffrey Selingo, “More than 70 to 80 percent of new hires at big companies like Facebook, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and eBay come through their internship programs now, compared to about half or less just a decade ago.” […]
The ‘monumental failure’ of today’s colleges: Survey
Northeastern University is bucking the trend. The Boston-based research university, where tuition combined with room and board runs about $56,000 a year, has a special co-op program that provides semester-long full-time internship opportunities for students. The program has been around for more than a century. More than 90 percent of the students had internships last […]
Education for a New Generation
The Lang Youth commit to Saturday and summer classes at NewYork-Presbyterian. The hands-on courses are taught by Columbia University faculty and students and include clinical rotations and internships. Curriculum covers the human body, diseases and public health. The program, run by the hospital’s Ambulatory Care Network, includes college preparation and help with the college-application process. […]
Taking the Real Food Challenge
Tricia Kiefer is a student at Northeastern University who cares about the way she eats. She’s passionate about the importance of consuming honest, healthy, and local food as a way to support a sustainable food system and create social change. “I had a community garden on Symphony Road, and it felt empowering to grow my […]
Internship experiences helped goal of a nursing career
Van Dam, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, found that working in a hospital environment at an early age boosted her confidence about pursuing a career in health care. As a nursing student at Northeastern University, I knew that it was difficult for new graduates to get hired without having some experience under their belt. I […]
San Diego Reader
The Case for Internship
The experience of finding that first job -€” even if it’€™s a short-term, part-time summer job – can be daunting. Teenagers often find themselves in a strange world. They are expected to figure out what they have to offer, fill out a job application, and then wait for someone to say the magic phrase, “You’€™re […]
BostInnovation
Not Your Average Summer Vacation: How These College Students Made a Difference This Summer
Summer vacation means a lot of different things to college students. For most, it’€™s the time of year they get the luxury of only working more. They’€™re found slaving away at internships that pay little to nothing, or back at the high school jobs that have somehow carried into the early years of their college […]