Yet that is exactly where Gregory Menvielle, a graduate student in Near Eastern languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago, is spending his summer. The company sponsoring his internship, Tigris, is a technology-consulting company small enough for him to have a significant impact during the summer. A guide to resources on internships work experience at an Internet consulting company. Internships, both paid and unpaid, are excellent ways to develop new skills, enhance or deepen academic interests, and explore possible career paths. While internships are common experiences for professional students in programs like law, business, and social work, they are rarely an integral part of graduate training in the arts and sciences.
Internships are especially valuable for opening up doors in competitive fields with fewer openings.
Nikolai Vargas has been working at an unpaid internship since the spring at the Jane Jordan Browne literary agency. He reviews query letters from authors, reads and edits their manuscripts, and helps the agency decide whether to represent authors. He will soon begin pitching to publishers a manuscript he identified. I have real responsibilities, and I always want to come in. Finding time for an internship was hectic with his full course load for a master's degree in humanities, but he was motivated by his keen interest in the field.