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[HELP] Pitt. Student w/ Problems
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Darth K'Trava
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I could be wrong, but usually internships don't pay, or not very well. You'd probably be better off going through the college for those. I know that UNCG has advertised about internships (don't know what fields as it was a banner in the student center). Other than that, I guess ask around at various companies if they offer them. Or just go ahead and try to gain regular employment if you can.
Dunno if this helps or not....
Dunno if this helps or not....
tarchon
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Information Systems Technology? Check around with local small businesses. They often like to get part-time interns of the computer jockey kind. And yah, a sub-baccalaureate internship isn't going to pay a whole lot. Definitely avoid the acronym "IST" - nobody's going to know what that is. Actually, I don't even know what it is - I just assume curriculum named with an unfamiliar acronym is some variety of computer technology (management is a close second). I really wish colleges would standardize them a bit better. CIS, IT, CIT, CST, ITCS... permute, permute, permute.
soulforge
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It's Information Science and Technology. I am a senior and very experienced, and many of the internships for this degree do actually pay somewhat well. I've seen the average so far as 10 to 14 dollars an hour, and the highest i've actually interviewed for was 14-19 dollars an hour.. I would have loved to get the $19 an hour one.
Stone Angel
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Try checking with your administration, and maybe even some of your proffessors they should be able to point you in the right direction. At Purdue we were made to take internships. I had three, one payed the rest did not. Good luck.
The Seraph of Earth and Stone
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tarchon
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At 22, definitely don't say "very experienced" too loudly at an interview. 
I did three internships, and all of them paid (ranging from "barely" to "hey, I think I'll go out and buy an electric bass today"), but that first one really required turning over some stones. The other two basically got handed to me while I was in grad school, one of them was even more or less obligatory. I did the first one in Germany, where internships are looked upon as a form of free education, so many employers openly wonder whether you should be paying them, rather than vice versa. They do this especially if they think you don't speak German.
Fortunately, in the US tech industry, you can often get something comparable to what they'd normally pay someone with your qualifications, and usually not much less than 70-80% normal. Getting paid zilch is almost (but not quite) unheard of for engineering students, unless you're in some tiny burg like Lafayette where they have 5000 idle engineering students sitting around every summer. Technology students can't usually expect quite as good a deal, but they're usually not in a bad position. Some companies take the position that internships are an important recruiting tool, so if they expect you're going to be someone they want later on (especially someone in the "capital skills" category), they may hand out some pretty good deals to make an impression. Certain major chipmakers treat interns like godlings, or at least they did before the tech bubble. Seriously - and I'm not even slightly making this up - we had an entertainment director when I was at one of them.
Of course, there are also places where the intern is the guy who gets to pull the dead rat out of the ceiling, but I won't say where that was [whistles].
Actually, if you're at a full-blown university, you can probably find some part-time lab computer support around. Most research groups and/or departments will use undergrads part time for IT support. Honestly, it doesn't even matter if the job is referred to as an "internship." As long as it's in your field, potential employers won't really care what you call it.
I did three internships, and all of them paid (ranging from "barely" to "hey, I think I'll go out and buy an electric bass today"), but that first one really required turning over some stones. The other two basically got handed to me while I was in grad school, one of them was even more or less obligatory. I did the first one in Germany, where internships are looked upon as a form of free education, so many employers openly wonder whether you should be paying them, rather than vice versa. They do this especially if they think you don't speak German.
Fortunately, in the US tech industry, you can often get something comparable to what they'd normally pay someone with your qualifications, and usually not much less than 70-80% normal. Getting paid zilch is almost (but not quite) unheard of for engineering students, unless you're in some tiny burg like Lafayette where they have 5000 idle engineering students sitting around every summer. Technology students can't usually expect quite as good a deal, but they're usually not in a bad position. Some companies take the position that internships are an important recruiting tool, so if they expect you're going to be someone they want later on (especially someone in the "capital skills" category), they may hand out some pretty good deals to make an impression. Certain major chipmakers treat interns like godlings, or at least they did before the tech bubble. Seriously - and I'm not even slightly making this up - we had an entertainment director when I was at one of them.
Of course, there are also places where the intern is the guy who gets to pull the dead rat out of the ceiling, but I won't say where that was [whistles].
Actually, if you're at a full-blown university, you can probably find some part-time lab computer support around. Most research groups and/or departments will use undergrads part time for IT support. Honestly, it doesn't even matter if the job is referred to as an "internship." As long as it's in your field, potential employers won't really care what you call it.
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