Quitting my internship?

Rising senior in a non-finance internship which I despise. At the beginning, I was able to study technicals/model during working hours but now I am busy enough where I no longer have that opportunity. As we move towards recruiting for FT I feel like I would be better suited quitting this job and spending time preparing for interviews/having more time to network.

I am fearful that it may look bad if I have quit an internship, or that a potential future employer would ask for a reference from my current company. Any advice is much appreciated.

(For context, I have a past internship in buy-side research, and another one lined up for this fall in LMM PE)

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How would you rate the resume importance of this internship relative to the buy-side research and LMM PE? Dou have have references from the first one?

 

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