Intern salary does not matter?

I got an offer for a 60k pro-rated off-cycle internship at a MM firm(considered the top firm in my country) and in my euphoria I decided to take it without doing much market research into the market salaries at the time. After doing more research I found that the summer interns generally make 80k pro-rated.

Would it be bad form now to try and renegotiate for a higher salary? i really like the firm and the team I'll be working in but the salary seems like a slap in the face. This is a 4-month internship so I'll be down about 7k relative to my peers.

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You need to contemplate whether happiness is within you or without you.

Pro-tip: It's within you. At this stage, comparing your salary to other interns is just a road to misery and self-defeat.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 

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