Is the importance of internships ruining college?

Waaaaahhhhhh

i liked doing the shit i put on my resume. and internships are great, you realize lots of kids from great schools spent 2-3 years working bullshit jobs while they got their shit figured out in 60s and 70s. I'm talking like brooks brothers salesmen, ski instructors, etc.

Count yourself lucky that you have come to this realization in your sophomore year. I'm all for enjoying your college years, but for the sake of sacrificing a couple of summers => years in your early twenties it can lead to a FAR better quality of life down the line.

My friend interned in a foreign country for a summer, why dont you try something like this and not waste your time taking BS classes in Barcelona 2 days a week. You can still have some fun while gaining valuable experience

Fun? Let me guess, I dont wanna grow up, I wanna be a toys R us kid? Jeeze, youre not a young guy anymore. School isnt for fun, its for learning, to the opposite of what a lot of people here would probably say. Still, if you just took the time you spent here reading/posting, you could put that in to a camping trip or something if you economized your time well.

im going to agree with Flake on this one...

go call a wahhhmbulence OP

Boo fucking hoo, if you are filing papers in your internships your fucked. Quit complaining and make a fucking decision. " I cry because I have to make choices and it's hard, so I'm going to rant and complain online". Now you just look like a prissy little bitch.

rpcas:

Perhaps I've just been going through the motions today, but I can't help but get the feeling the prominence and importance of internships nowadays is ruining college.

I'm not really sure what you mean by nowadays considering that you are maybe 21 and you have no other experience to compare it to. Regardless, that is like saying that hopefully one day having a job and making money and making effort to make those advances is ruining college, when in fact that is why you go in the first place.

rpcas:

I'm a sophomore, and am likely going to be accepted to study abroad later in the year in a very exciting city. However, the study abroad would cut out well over half the summer, meaning that there would be no option to take on a full length internship.

I need a magnifying glass because it appears I have lost an extremely fucking small violin.

rpcas:

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I've had second thoughts about going on exchange due to do the internship problem. From what I've read, not having a sophomore internship will make opportunities as a junior all the much more difficult to come by....

Absolutely not true. You can find a way to work while on campus in something relevant, paid or unpaid, and add that to your resume. The idea that you need to work at Goldman Sachs at 19 in order to someday rule the world is a product of retardation. I think Lloyd Blankfein was actually rejected from Goldman Sachs at some point in his career, so yeah.

rpcas:

That's the key problem I see with the competitive internship scene these-days. They are ruining college. Why am I even considering passing down a study abroad opportunity + traveling for an unpaid summer in a fucking office?

I don't know, and while you are at it, why don't you start applying for 5th grade teaching positions? Why spend a summer in an office when you can travel or sit by the pool all day? If you can't handle the competition of simply finding an internship, what makes you think you are going to handle just about anything else asked of you once you have the job?

rpcas:

People are becoming more and more competitive, internships are now expected in all industries, college kids are spending their sophomore summers filing paper for nothing, and in the end, the quality of college life is dropping.

You know this how? You make all these claims about "nowadays", "these-days", shit about quality of life and competition ruining the world. Why finance? Why not a sociology PhD? All you have done here is make a number of broad, unsubstantiated claims.

rpcas:

Were we better off in the days where college kids needn't bother with internships in their first few years or joining bullshit clubs for resume building? Were we better off in the days of road trips, camping, traveling and to put it bluntly, fun?

Part of this comes from the fact that college has been watered down by massive grade inflation and too many universities. In the past, having a bachelor's degree in anything worth spending money to study demonstrated some basic sense of competency where even though you had no job specific skills, companies were willing to train young, smart graduates and put them on a path to managerial positions that could earn a decent living. Now that there are bachelor's programs in British literature, women's studies, oppression of Irish in the 19th century, and so on with the bullshit, indicating some sort of further interest in what you want to do is not only a good idea but fortunately necessary to separate yourself from that art history major with a 3.12 grade point average. You can still go camping, road tripping, and all sorts of other stuff during the school year and summer, but based on the strong whining and e-tears that I can see in your writing, your desire to take the extra steps to do those things instead of having someone just hand it to you seems quite low.

If you're in class that isnt B-School you shouldnt really be telling anyone to grow up

^ Thanks for the insight, Tony.

Regardless, OP is complaining for no major reason. I can understand why he's mad, though, but it seems he's already made his choice.

Most people shouldn't even be in college. Most people are just there so they can get a job afterwards. It's not internships getting in the way of college, it's college getting in the way of your career.

Let me guess your parents pay your tuition?

Yet you still whine like a girl