This week’s happenings involve fairness and how to evaluate it.  Intern Life is hard and you need to know what is going on in the intern world so that you can conquer the unknown.  Here are the two biggest happenings this week:

Paid Vs Unpaid-The Elephant in the Room

While sifting through those countless pages of Intern Queen listings, your head begins to ache. Unable to stare at the screen any longer, you contemplate calling it quits until – AHA! You’ve finally found it! Just when you were about to abandon your internship search in favor of summer classes, there it is: your dream internship with your favorite fashion magazine!

How Not to Be the Rory Gilmore Intern

As an avid Gilmore Girls fan, I enjoy watching a rerun on ABC Family every once in a while, and the latest episodes have been about Rory quitting Yale. One of the main reasons she decided to quit was that she didn’t know what she wanted to do anymore because the only thing she liked she “knew she wasn’t good at.” There was only one person to blame: her former boss, and boyfriend’s father, Mitchum Huntzberger. Mitchum offered Rory an internship at the Stamford Eagle-Gazette, and Rory took it, thinking she could show off her skills.