> "Well, those would count as jobs themselves, so you would have to send out resumes anyway." It's bigger than that. The difference between internships and ful

> "Well, those would count as jobs themselves, so you would have to send out resumes anyway." It's bigger than that. The difference between internships and full-time work is that one is a lot easier to get than the other. Being a student opens tons of doors for no particular reason whatsoever. Many companies have organized internship programs not only for recruitment's sake, but also out of some sense of social responsibility. People are also willing to cut students a lot of slack, and let a lot of problems drop. The expectations are dramatically lower. The bar shoots up dramatically as soon as you leave school, even for the same type of work. IMO anyone who isn't leveraging their student status to get at these opportunities is wasting time. You will never again be in this good of a position to be automatically given the benefit of the doubt. I know many humanities majors from college, and the ones who have not have trouble finding employment have always been the ones who leveraged internships and other student-only opportunities to their maximum.