Two summers ago, Lauren Grunstein landed exactly the kind of internship she wanted: doing public relations for a fashion designer. What the College of Communication freshman hadn’t counted on were the long hours and menial tasks, like running errands and fetching coffee.
Her friend Stephanie Gurtman had the opposite experience. She was anxious about her internship at an advertising agency. Her boss was fired before Gurtman started, and for a while, the firm wasn’t sure if she’d be needed. “I was extremely nervous, because I wasn’t sure what I was going to be getting myself into,” she recalls. But Gurtman loved the job. “I was sent on commercial shoots, wrote press releases, and went to important meetings.” ......Read more >>
