Struggling with internship opps.. Thoughts?

I go to a targetish school. Have three internship opps, none of which are exciting. The one most related to finance is a real estate internship at a fairly small firm that rally doesn't excite me. Do you think it's too late in the game to go crazy with cold calling and networking? Are there any AM or IB firms that would take on an unpaid intern this late in the game? Even if it was informal and part time. I would practically kill for something relevant to put on my resume for recruiting in the winter...

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Since it is lower commitment than a real internship firms may be willing to let you shadow someone for a week or one day or whatever. Same way you'd approach the normal cold calls but with a lower "ask." Also, since you seem to have limited finance experience remember that you don't HAVE to shadow someone in IB--financial advisory, corp. finance would also be interesting.

 

If you have money to burn, some companies offer pretty expensive IB training programs that place you at an IB or so they say - not sure exactly how it works, I think I heard that some basically have created a firm and get you to do IB type work that you can put on your resume. Google Kerburn Rose, I think that's one of them?

Otherwise take an internship from what you have and network and try to get IB in the fall

 

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