When You Give an Auction an Internship...

Give Barnard $500, they'll give you a 2-month unpaid internship in a failing industry at one of said industry's worst publications!

lizvarner:

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for raising as much funding as possible for my wonderful alma mater, and a lot of the items up for bid on their online auction are legitimately very cool (albeit too expensive for me to even pretend to consider purchasing). But really? Paying at least $500 for an internship? An unpaid internship? An unpaid internship in magazine publishing?

Are you even allowed to put a purchased internship experience on your resume? If you are, you shouldn’t be. Actually, after further thought, maybe you should be required to put “paid to participate in unpaid internship” on a resume, because really sometimes the ‘interests’ section of a CV isn’t quite enough to weed out the crazies.

Internette:

Love that the “estimated value” is $1500. Estimated value TO THE MAGAZINE of HAVING AN INTERN, maybe. Seriously, what good and ethical people can possibly think to themselves, “Why, yes, an internship at the world-renowned magazine SHAPE? That is easily worth one and one half grand. That is what most people would want to pay for it, in my estimation.”

I think my favorite part is that whoever "wins" this auction prize still has to be enrolled in a college and "pay their own expenses." This means that not only will they pay $500, but actually somewhere between $800-$3800 to cover the costs of being enrolled in a college, finding a place to live, and eating food for the two months that you will have that internship. Plus, what internship ever lasts just two months? All of mine were at least three months if not five.

Although, let's be honest here, you get to choose your department! "Fitness, health, nutrition, beauty, fashion, or even website!" Can't I do them all?!