I'm hoping some of you knowledgable parents can help---
My daughter has been submitting resumes and hitting the campus career fairs for summer internships in engineering. She's beginning to get interviews set up. The school career center has information online about getting credit for internships/co-ops, but internship credit isn't required by the school for her degree. A fee is charged to get "credit" for internships.
So the question is, is it necessary, required, or otherwise desirable to go through the school to get credit for the internship? Is that totally optional? Is an internship somehow different than a full time summer job in your field?
A secondary question: How have your students handled time off needed during the time frame of a summer internship? I would think it's preferable to not need any time off for such a short period of employment, but we are trying to plan wisdom teeth extraction, sister's graduation, and maybe RA training at the end of summer? She, of course, wants to do everything. Except perhaps the wisdom teeth--that she'd rather skip!
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