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...internship opportunity to work in Mass. Hall the next...
...move to California was a logical step for the team, Zuckerberg says. He hoped to spend the summer working on Wirehog, the file-sharing offshoot to TheFacebook. McCollum, who helped Zuckerberg create Wirehog, had an internship with Electronic Arts in Redwood City, California. Wirehog’s third founder, Adam D’Angelo, a friend of Zuckerberg’s from high school who now attends CalTech, didn’t want to travel too far from school, but Zuckerberg figured he could bring him up to Palo Alto...
...several helpful people in Los Angeles who offered me their business cards and encouraged me to contact them with questions. I was offered an internship for the summer as well. The most important part of Harvardwood 101, however, was that it gave me a good perspective about life in the entertainment industry. Harvardwood 101 is an opportunity that should not be missed...
Once students have found an internship offer, they need to fund it and thus must grapple with Harvard’s complex and frustrating decentralization. There is no single office dealing solely with international experiences: OIP covers study abroad, whereas work abroad falls under the joint jurisdiction of departments, area study centers and OCS. A student wishing to work in Germany, for instance, will be juggled between OCS, OIP, the Center for European Studies and the German Department. Furthermore, funding is only granted extremely late, frequently in April, so those denied grants must cancel their internship and scramble to find...
Money, however, remains a problem of its own. A two-month stay in a foreign country is expensive, and few internship providers can afford to offer stipends or salaries. While there are a number of Harvard-funded opportunities, these are limited in number, and there is firece competition for them. The prominent Weissman International Internship Program, which finances international internships for sophomores and juniors (who have secured their opportunities independently), funds only 30-odd students each year. For Zou, who located her internship at the House of Commons without help from Harvard but through a friend of a friend...