What are good summer internships for high-school students in New York?
Thanks for all of your comments—I’ve begun contacting New York organizations I’m interacted with in the past, but I’m also intrigued by the possibilities of public-radio or nonprofit service. trotter: I take your point, and I’m aware of the perils of becoming, as you say, “another guy who’s never worked a real job before.” Here’s the catch: If I wind up taking an internship this summer, it’ll be because I’ve been turned down (a significant likelihood) by a seminar program. My chief interest either way is in the work itself, be it academic study or office chores, but I’m trying to plan contingencies with similar résumé-value—hence the search for an internship. There are many different forms of contingency, of course, and my fallback—advertising my computer services within my community—is only slightly less of a “real job” tha
