Despite the cold continuing to command our collective core, it’s spring baby! With spring, first comes shower and then, hopefully, some sweet Sunflowers. Rolled up in the middle of all this spring madness and fruitfulness are some wonderful, wholesome, and wild applications to bodacious internships. Here at the Career Services Laboratory of Dreams, internship request forms have been coming in like a cool and entertaining plague that helps little rascals enjoy a nice sea breeze. Now, if that didn’t make any sense to you, as it made little to me, the bottom line is that WE HAVE A LOT OF INTERNSHIPS! Yes, some internship deadlines have passed but all is not lost because there are plenty more coming in by the boat load. My humble and hearty advice to you would be to start applying! Or at least check some of them out. And, contrary to popular belief that MOJO only houses Finance internships, there are internship postings across all fields. PR, Teaching, Non-profit, Marine Biology? You name it, we most likely have it.
Now, I love MOJO as much as Big Boi loves da purp but I want to inform all of y’all sportsfans out there that MOJO is not the end all be all of internship postings. Career Services offers a plethora (9th grade vocab word…sup) of resources and databases that the everyday Midd Kid can find internship info on. What should you do? Well, definitley chizzy check that LACN jumpoff (you can get to it from MOJO, hit the ‘jump to LACN’ button). Next I would definitely take a quick ol’ peek at the Midd-Only resources on the Career Services website. There you can find links to Internships.com, VAULT, and oodles of other resources.
Do what you would do with your portfolio (but not with your corporation), diversify , baby. You want to get your name out in as many places as you can so that you can, well, give your fine self the best chance possible. I am no necessarily endorsing a shot-gun or spray a pray approach, however. With each internship you apply to, you are not only representing yourself but also our school. Make sure you put time and effort into every application to make sure it reflects the type of person and candidate you want the employer to consider.
So what are you going to do right now? Go for 37 points and 23 rebounds like my boy Kevin Love? With whom I went to Elementary school and played 3rd grade hoops, btw. Well, probably not…but you should get your cupcakes in gear and start looking at internships before it is really too late. Feel free to stop by Career Services for some drop ins (2-5 PM err weekday)to discuss your internship future or if you just want to talk shop with yours truly. Check it, alliterations are alright, y’all.