It is important to be aware of the pressure that people may feel to have had incredibly productive or life-changing breaks, and of the significant barriers to these experiences.

While the available stipends to assist students are valuable, the University should consider adjusting the system by which it allocates these funds in order to better support students.

The siren’s call of summer is upon us, and I, for one, am happy to be out of testing and books and learning, if only for a little while. In this day and age, we can’t go ahead and do nothing over the summer. For some of us that means maybe getting a job. For most of us it means getting an unpaid internship somewhere.

The number of unpaid internships has been rising steadily throughout the nation, resulting in a crackdown on firms by federal and state regulators who worry that employers are abusing the nature of unpaid internships to gain free labor.