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“Dream Internships” Span Across All Industries and Company Sizes
College students shared their dream internships. Ideas ranged from detailed descriptions to specific
companies, such as Zappos and The International Olympic Committee, specific mentors, including
Tory Burch and President Obama, to job functions and projects.
The range of examples spanned across all industries and company sizes. Many included
examples of internships for some of the world’s biggest brands, such as Microsoft, Google, Apple,
Coca-Cola, Amazon, Disney, and the New York Yankees, but others referred to local hospitals, zoos,
legal and accounting firms, to name just a few of the thousands of examples.
Regardless of the company of choice, most students focused on finding internships that allow them
to put the knowledge they acquired at school into practice, develop new skills, build their network
and start getting prepared for the workplace.
Below are a few verbatim quotes to illustrate the breadth of ideas when describing the dream
internship:
Specific mentors:
• Work with James Dyson.
• Work with President Obama.
• Working with Lilly Pulitzer; doing anything.
• Working with Sam Presti; learning what goes in to being a great NBA General Manager.
• Working under Hans Zimmer.
• Working for Mona Scott.
• Interning with Pat Parelli.
• Interning for David Tutera.
Specific organizations:
• Working with the industrial design team at Cupertino on the next Apple, Inc. product.
• Working with the FBI to make sure I like the field I’m studying.
• A Children’s medical center hospital nursing internship. My goal is to become a pediatric APRN one
day and I would love to see what I would be doing and learning more as an undergraduate student.
• My dream internship is the community relations position at the World Wrestling Entertainment
Company (WWE). I absolutely love the company. I love the work they do to promote different causes.
• Interning with a speech language pathology practice that might contract to schools for speech
therapy or working closely with an organization providing speech therapy to underfunded/poverty
stricken areas.
• My dream internship is working for Ford Motor Co. and help design their engines in the most
efficient and powerful way.
• My dream internship is to work for the SEC, particularly because I’m working towards a career in
securities regulation.
Specific ideas:
• An environment where I could demonstrate what I know, and at the same time be able to learn as
I work on different projects.
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College students shared their dream internships. Ideas ranged from detailed descriptions to specific
companies, such as Zappos and The International Olympic Committee, specific mentors, including
Tory Burch and President Obama, to job functions and projects.
The range of examples spanned across all industries and company sizes. Many included
examples of internships for some of the world’s biggest brands, such as Microsoft, Google, Apple,
Coca-Cola, Amazon, Disney, and the New York Yankees, but others referred to local hospitals, zoos,
legal and accounting firms, to name just a few of the thousands of examples.
Regardless of the company of choice, most students focused on finding internships that allow them
to put the knowledge they acquired at school into practice, develop new skills, build their network
and start getting prepared for the workplace.
Below are a few verbatim quotes to illustrate the breadth of ideas when describing the dream
internship:
Specific mentors:
• Work with James Dyson.
• Work with President Obama.
• Working with Lilly Pulitzer; doing anything.
• Working with Sam Presti; learning what goes in to being a great NBA General Manager.
• Working under Hans Zimmer.
• Working for Mona Scott.
• Interning with Pat Parelli.
• Interning for David Tutera.
Specific organizations:
• Working with the industrial design team at Cupertino on the next Apple, Inc. product.
• Working with the FBI to make sure I like the field I’m studying.
• A Children’s medical center hospital nursing internship. My goal is to become a pediatric APRN one
day and I would love to see what I would be doing and learning more as an undergraduate student.
• My dream internship is the community relations position at the World Wrestling Entertainment
Company (WWE). I absolutely love the company. I love the work they do to promote different causes.
• Interning with a speech language pathology practice that might contract to schools for speech
therapy or working closely with an organization providing speech therapy to underfunded/poverty
stricken areas.
• My dream internship is working for Ford Motor Co. and help design their engines in the most
efficient and powerful way.
• My dream internship is to work for the SEC, particularly because I’m working towards a career in
securities regulation.
Specific ideas:
• An environment where I could demonstrate what I know, and at the same time be able to learn as
I work on different projects.
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