The Summer Internship Still Earns Its Keep

Town & Country has taken up the question of whether a college internship is worth a student's summer, and its answer is yes. Many of these positions carry no paycheck, much of the work is routine, and an introduction from the right family friend still opens more doors than a cold application. Even so, the students who take them come away counting the experience among the most useful early moves toward a career. For any North End household with a son or daughter weighing a summer in an office against one spent on the sand at the end of the street, the piece makes the case for the office.

With reporting from Town & Country.