Speaking as an 18 year old almost done with my first Summer internship, I could not agree more. I went into college with a pretty solid grasp on Java (competed

Speaking as an 18 year old almost done with my first Summer internship, I could not agree more. I went into college with a pretty solid grasp on Java (competed on the national level) and didn't learn a thing my first year. However, as soon as I stepped into my internship, I was learning from day one. You just can't learn the same lessons in school as you can from writing code that silently deletes database records when they should be getting updated... Yeah. Internships are important. :)