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Do you plan on celebrating Valentine’s Day this Saturday?

59%—No way, Valentine’s Day is not my thing.

Do you tip your waiters and waitresses when you go out to eat at a restaurant?

33%—Yep, my significant other and I are going out.

7%—Yep, but I’m celebrating it with my close friends.

Total votes: 27 as of 4 p.m. Monday

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To submit your valentine, visit: If you can’t tip, you can’t afford to go out to eat statenews.com/spreadthelove going on now until Feb. 11 On the nights I can’t bear to consume another meal in the dining hall, it’s not unusual for my friends and I to treat ourselves to dinner at a favorite local restaurant.

The other night as we were leaving one of said dinners, I set a tip on the table and waited for one of my friends to do the same. She stared at me blankly until she realized what I was waiting for, and responded, “Oh, I don’t tip. I don’t have the money for that.”

This tendency among my peers to tip poorly, or not at all, is something that really bothers me. I’ve worked in the food service industry.

I’ve experienced awful tables and unruly customers. And I am floored that there are people who believe wait staff do not deserve to be tipped for the services they provide.

With the ever-increasing debate about minimum wage, it’s important to acknowledge most

waiters and waitresses are paid well below this menial amount — sometimes as little as $2.50 an hour. Employers do this because they expect the rest to be made up with tips.

Though some restaurants will adjust salaries to meet minimum wage if a wait staff member does not make that much in tips, this is not always the case.

Tips are the primary source of income for wait staff, and though many people have come up with various excuses for their poor tipping habits, this doesn’t justify their frugal behavior. Your food arriving late is not a reflection of the wait staff service, but rather of the kitchen workers, whom the wait staff have to share a portion of their tips with at the end of the night.

And though it can be tempting to leave a waitress who was slightly snippy a bad tip, it is important to remember that person is only human. Perhaps they dealt with a particularly difficult table before yours, or a rough situation at home has soured his or her mood.

At the end of the day, waiters and waitresses generally do their best to ensure that your dining experience is positive, and the least you can do is throw them a few dollars in return.

If you “can’t afford” to tip your wait staff, then maybe you should think twice about going out to eat in the first place.

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Students killed in car crash during winter break memorialized A group of friends and classmates gathered at the rock on Farm Lane Sunday night to pay their respects to sophomores and close friends Maura Brandi and Carolena Elowsky

Speakers in February lecture series paid vastly different rates While John Lewis, a current U.S. congressman, spoke for free, Harry Belafonte will receive $25,000 and Al Sharpton will receive $5,000

By Sergio Martínez-Beltrán smartinez@statenews.com

Columbia College marketing communications sophomore Grace Glenny holds her candle Sunday in honor of Carolena Elowsky and Maura Brandi, two MSU sophomores who died in a car accident Jan. 2, 2015. Glenny was best friends with Elowsky and Brandi from childhood in their hometown of Charlevoix, Michigan. PHOTO: EMILY NAGLE

By Meagan Beck mbeck@statenews.com

“They were definitely one of a kind,” Diana Nicoletti, an advertising and professional writing sophomore, said of her friends Maura Brandi and Carolena Elowsky at their memorial at the Rock on Farm Lane Sunday night.

A little more than a month has passed since Brandi, a landscape architecture sophomore, and Elowsky, an accounting sophomore, died in a car accident during winter break. The memorial was hosted by the sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, of which Elowsky was a member.

In celebration of their lives, students and friends gathered to paint the rock, sign their names and write messages to both Brandi and Elowsky.

Paper bag luminaries and flowers surrounded the rock as students and friends reflected upon their memories of their friends.

During the memorial, Nicoletti recited a poem written by Elowsky’s aunt, which 4

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she said has been helping her get through the difficult time.

Nicoletti, who shared an apartment with the pair, as well as with kinesiology sophomore Alexandria Kuiper, said the group was like the sisters they never had.

“We had an unbelievable bond between us,” Nicoletti said. “We could be going out on a weekend or just hang out on a Tuesday night and we would always have fun.”

She said some of her best memories as a group were made on game days.

“Carolena and I would wake up and play the fight song and wake (Kuiper and Brandi) up,” Nicoletti said.

Some of the pair’s friends from their hometown of Charlevoix, Michigan came to share their memories with members of the MSU community.

Bailee Stevens, a Grand Valley State University student, said Brandi and Elowsky had an intense amount of passion for MSU. “Both of them applied to Michigan and Michigan State their senior year and as soon as they both got accepted to State it was no question where they were going,” Tuesday, FEBRUA RY 1 0, 2 01 5

Stevens said. “Ever since then, they had MSU attire on ... I wouldn’t be surprised if they had it on during graduation.”

Stevenson said she was not surprised with the large amount of people who came to the rock because she knows Brandi and Elowsky touched a lot of people’s lives.

Hannah Herboldsheimer, another hometown friend and student at Grand Rapids Community College, said even at their small high school, Brandi and Elowsky expressed school spirit and love for the people around them.

“We’re a family, all of us,” Herboldsheimer said. “Everybody loved them and they loved every single person in our graduating class. It’s just like losing family members.”

Kuiper said as time passes, she wants the MSU community to remember how special and important both Brandi and Elowsky were and how much they loved MSU in return.

“They were the biggest, craziest, most loving Spartan fans you’ll ever meet,” Kuiper said.

Two civil rights movement leaders will together get paid $30,000 for speaking in the Dr. William G. Anderson Lecture Series “Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey,” sponsored by the College of Osteopathic Medicine.

According to official documents provided by Laura Probyn, Public Relations Director of the College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Rev. Al Sharpton and singer Harry Belafonte will cash a combined amount that equals more than one year of in-state tuition.

U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, who already participated as one of the speakers in the lecture series, will not get paid because he is a congressman and cannot accept payment, Probyn said.

According to copies of the contract, a total of $25,000 plus meals and travel expenses “for two” will be billed to MSU by Belafonte.

An initial payment of $12,500 was made on June 30, 2014. A second payment of $12,500 will be made Feb. 25, the contract says.

In perspective, Belafonte is getting paid $2,550 more for one visit than the combined total of MSU’s in-state tuition and room and board added — according to MSU Office of Admissions website, the cost of in-state tuition and room and board totals $22,450.

In Sharpton’s case, the reverend will cash in $5,000 for his participation on Feb. 26.

According to Sharpton’s contract, “(MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine External Programs Office) will cover meals and travel expenses.”

When asked if it was problematic to bring Sharpton as a speaker, Probyn said the university is a place to have dissenting opinions.

“What we believe is that the university is a place that should exist to support all points of view,” Probyn said. “We know that not everyone is going to agree with Rev. Sharpton’s views, and we respect that.”

Sharpton has been involved in a lot of controversies, many of them sparked by commentaries made by Sharpton himself that some considered racist.

But Sharpton and Belafonte are the latest examples of MSU paying exorbitant amount of money to speakers.

In December, controversial author and columnist George Will was paid $47,500 to speak at the winter commencement ceremonies.

Will’s participation stirred protests from different organizations on campus after a comment Will made in one of his columns where he claimed the “supposed campus epidemic of rape” is being pushed by progressivism in America, and has made “victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges.”

Sports

Geoff Preston Sports editor sports@statenews.com @thesnews_sports

Denzel Valentine being asked to do it all for Spartans

Junior guard Denzel Valentine maneuvers around Illinois guard Malcolm Hill Saturday, during the game at Breslin Center. The Spartans were defeated by the Fighting Illini, 59-54.

During Saturday’s loss to Illinois, Valentine’s performance showed he is the best all-around player the Spartans have right now foul trouble, fouled the jump shooter, he had two ridiculous fouls and he fouls him on that three,” Izzo said. “You can’t do that. You just With 17 seconds left, junior guard Denzel Val- can’t do those things.”

Izzo, who had previously talked about rethinkentine missed a potential game-tying shot from no more than five feet away from the rim. After ing his strategy of sitting players with two fouls, the miss, Valentine was forced to foul and picked yanked Valentine for the next two minutes.

When he re-entered the game, he was effecup his fifth personal, leaving MSU without its best all-around player with 15 seconds left on tive once again. The troubling part of Valentine’s performance was that, despite the clock. his versatility, he didn’t step to Valentine said he got bumped the free-throw line once. MSU on the attempt but called it a bad was disastrous from the line as shot after Saturday’s 59-54 loss a team, but Valentine, an 83 perto Illinois. cent free-throw shooter, never After a made Illinois free had the opportunity to help. throw, a 3-point heave from “I drew a couple fouls, but they senior guard Travis Trice came were on the floor fouls in the secup short and MSU’s day was Denzel Valentine ond half,” Valentine said. “It’s over.

This final sequence was just points per game this season frustrating.”

After 18 minutes in the secmore evidence that the Sparond half, Izzo said Valentine was tans lack a closer. Valentine is the closest thing MSU has to one, but too many worn out at the end at the end of the game. times, he’s been sidelined because of foul trou- Between being run down and a fourth foul that he picked up at the 2:02 mark in the half, it was ble down the stretch.

Valentine scored the game’s first points at the only a matter of time before MSU would be with19:36 mark but he didn’t score again for almost out Valentine.

Last week Izzo talked about how Valentine 18 minutes. He struggled in the first half, making just 2-of-7 field goals, including two missed “puts way too much pressure on himself.” His personal, team and program goals are far-reach3- pointers.

After halftime, Valentine’s game elevated dra- ing. Seeing him running on fumes at the end matically. He drilled his first two at the 16:31 of the game attests to just how hard he plays, mark and scored or assisted on the team’s next and the fouls may point to him simply trying to do too much. seven points.

“I don’t ever go to bed at night wondering if He picked up his third foul with about 13 minutes left, after disrupting a 3-point attempt from he cares,” Izzo said. “I don’t ever go to bed at night wondering if this isn’t the most importIllinois’ Kendrick Nunn.

“But Valentine got undisciplined and (got) in ant thing in the world to him.”

By John Neidhart

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Softball begins season in Florida with four wins in five games A busy weekend in DeLand, Florida saw MSU defeat Akron, Rhode Island, Morehead State and Stetson to start the season strong

By Alyssa Smith asmith@statenews.com

MSU softball finished opening weekend with a 4-1 record and a four-game winning streak.

They traveled to DeLand, Florida, to participate in the Westin Lake Mary Leadoff Classic at Stetson to play Akron, Rhode Island, Morehead State and Stetson.

In their opening game MSU dominated with a 5-0 victory over Akron. The Spartans scored three runs on a double in the third and two more in the fifth. Freshman McKenzie Long went 2-for-3 in her collegiate debut and was the only freshman to start on opening day. In the bottom of the third, Long got her first hit with a bunt single to third.

Later that afternoon, MSU continued their winning streak

with a 7-1 victory over Rhode Island. The Spartans recorded 10 hits, including two each for seniors Alyssa McBride and Stephanie Sanders. In the top of the second, Kassidy Kujawa scored the first home run of the season and the fourth of her career.

On Saturday, MSU earned their third win with a 6-0 shutout of Morehead State. Pitchers Kristina Zalewski and Dani Goranson, who returned from injuries last season, combined on a two-hit shutout. Zalewski went four innings, striking out a career-high seven, and did not allow a single run.

MSU struggled against Stetson later that day, but pulled out a 3-2 win and continued their streak. After holding off Stetson for four innings, the host team tied the game at two each in the fifth. In

the top of the seventh, MSU played aggressively; senior Stephanie Sanders sent home the game-winning run, while Zalewski allowed just one hit and no runs so far in her two appearances.

MSU played Akron for a second time Sunday morning, and ended their fourgame winning streak with a 4-2 loss. MSU did manage seven hits,and used all four pitchers on staff. Akron pitcher Erin Seiler walked both Shanin Thomas and Alyssa McBride to plate two runs in the first inning. Akron took a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the second.

Unable to recover, the Spartans fell after a four-game winning streak.

MSU will head back to Florida next weekend, to play the Florida Atlantic Tournament in Boca Raton, Florida.

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Are internships really necessary for your future career?

For some students, it’s a graduation requirement. For others, it’s just a chance to learn. But the data is showing that for this generation, internships are taking the place of first jobs, and pre-professional experience is highly valued by employers Marketing junior Jonathan Wallace updates social media accounts Friday while at his marketing internship at MSUFCU, 3777 West Road in East Lansing.

Wallace has been working with MSUFCU for about a year. photo: erin hampton

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experience employers are not going to talk to you.”

Today’s college students essentially have two options — to either focus solely on passing courses for a degree or to make the most of the time before entering the “real world” by snatching up as much job experience as possible.

As the U.S. job market becomes more demanding of potential employees, more students at MSU are looking to set themselves apart from other students by completing unique internships and undergraduate work experience.

Internships have slowly become commonplace over the last decade for undergraduate students in a myriad of majors. A report by MSU’s Collegiate Employment Research Institute, or CERI, found 92 percent of employers in 2014-2015 offer students pre-professional experience.

“Employers seem to be wrapping everything around the internship, and in most cases that’s the vehicle that employers will look for,” Director of MSU’s Collegiate Employment Research Institute Phil Gardner said. “If you don’t have

Required experience Depending on the college, some students are required to participate in an internship in order to complete their degree. Journalism students are required by the university to take at least a one-credit journalism internship before graduation.

“News organizations nowadays really don’t hire anybody that hasn’t had an internship.

They want to make sure the person has the right news instincts and can generate great story ideas,” journalism professor Bonnie Bucqueroux said.

The School of Hospitality Business requires each student to participate in two internships in the hospitality industry before graduation and James Madison College also requires fieldwork experience before graduation.

Students in other majors might simply see the value of gathering internship experience before they graduate. At MSU, 80 percent of packaging majors will graduate with an internship in that field although they are not required to have one, for example.

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Marketing junior Jonathan Wallace updates social media accounts Friday at his marketing internship at MSUFCU, 3777 West Road in East Lansing. photo: erin hampton

Anya Rath Managing editor arath@statenews.com @thesnews

Social relations and policy sophomore Gerena Walker looks through a property folder Friday at the property tax coordinator’s office in the Ingham County Courthouse, 315 S. Jefferson St., Mason, Michigan.

Walker interns through the Ingham County Treasurer for foreclosure prevention. photo: allyson telgenhof

Although not every department requires internship courses to graduate, employers expect a minimum amount of pre-professional experience before graduation, depending on a student’s major.

A 2013 CERI report showed that potential employees with law and nursing degrees are expected to have the most pre-professional experience before they enter the workforce.

For law, a person is expected to have between 16 and 18 months of experience and those going into nursing are expected to have between 12 and 14 months.

Students in accounting and business specialty fields — which include finance, marketing and human resources — are expected by employers to have gained a full year of experience prior to graduation.

For most other academic disciplines, employers expected 10 to 12 months of experience according to the report. General business, engineering and humanities and languages were expected to obtain the least amount of professional practice, with a requirement of eight to 10 months of experience.

A step ahead For those heading into the journalism field, internships allow students to step into a professional setting where they see how the news is made and gain hands-on experience, which they couldn’t otherwise, Bucqueroux said.

Journalism and international relations sophomore Ian Wendrow is interning at WDET Detroit.

He said that his time there has given him a specific skill set.

“Bouncing off ideas with professionals and

being in that atmosphere teaches me how to publishing a report about this — it’s a bigger develop story ideas, and also gives me access weight on my shoulders than getting a grade,” to networking with other journalists, as well Russell said.

She added that learning to use high-powered as high-powered officials,” said Wendrow, who drives to Detroit two times a week for his and complex equipment in a real-world situation is just one of the many advantages students internship.

Because undergraduate work experience can gain by working in a lab before graduation.

Marketing junior Jon Walis required for a degree in lace is a marketing intern the James Madison College, “It really has for the Michigan State Unisocial relations and poliversity Federal Credit Union. cy freshman Gerena Walkchanged in the He manages the website and er interns for the Ingham last decade. Since social media for MSUFCU’s County Treasurer’s Foreclo2006, we’ve seen Financial 4.0 program and sure Prevention Office. Walkworks to promote the orgaer works to help people avoid the internship to students. foreclosure. eventually take the nization “It’s given me a lot of expe“This isn’t exactly what place of first jobs.” rience in the field of marketI want to be doing, but it ing that I wouldn’t be able involves public affairs and to get in the classroom,” helping people so it’s great Eric Gardner, MSU Collegiate Wallace said. “I’ve been experience,” Walker said.

Employment Research exposed to a whole new side “I’m also working directly Institute Director` of marketing.” under the Ingham Country treasurer Eric Schertzing, From the employer’s so I’m expanding my profesperspective sional network.”

Despite not having a requirement by her col- Students seek internships to gain invaluable expelege to get professional experience, neurosci- rience in their field of work, earn academic credence sophomore Nicci Russell has been getting it and sometimes even earn money, but organiexperience as an undergraduate research assis- zations seek to hire interns for different reasons.

According to CERI’s recruiting trends report tant in the Neuroimaging of Attention and Perception Lab. She said that the experience she from 2012 to 2013, 57 percent of companies hired is receiving through her research time cannot interns in order to identify unique talent and develop student’s skills who could be hired in be replicated through classwork.

“Learning MATLAB and using the MRI in the future.

And 23 percent hired interns for supplemental our lab definitely helps build my experience, and I’m analyzing results for someone who is staffing and special projects.

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“Employers are trying to identify potential employees as soon as possible, and internships give them that ability,” Gardner said.

Employers are currently hiring interns at a higher rate as well. Findings from a 2014-2015 recruiting trends report from CERI shows that more than 53,000 intern and co-op positions will be available this year, with an average of 25 positions per company, and more than 60 percent of employers will offer internships.

Seventy-one percent will pay interns as opposed to last year when only 67 percent did.

“A lot of organizations have not hired consistently over the last 15 years because of the recession, so they’re facing a need to hire, and new technologies are requiring younger staff to take advantage of them,” Gardner said.

Employers are also relying more on the number of experiences a potential employee has had in pre-professional work.

The 2013 CERI report showed that 34 percent of companies consider one internship experience sufficient, while 55 percent desired employees to have 2 internship experiences in order to be hired.

But the college labor market is as strong as ever and companies are readily hiring new graduates who have participated in pre-professional experience.

CERI found that employers are currently hiring new graduates at levels not seen since the “dot-com frenzy of 1999-2000.”

“It really has changed in the last decade and your peers are facing a very different situation than students who graduated up to the 1990s,” Gardner said. “Since 2006, we’ve seen the internship essentially take the place of first jobs.”

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“It’s real competitive but I feel like an internship would be kind of good.”

“A little bit, I’m not too worried about it right now.”

Josh Young, chemical engineer freshman

Armani McKalpain, general management freshman

Student uses internship to help special needs kids For kinesiology senior Kaitlin Braun, an internship is required for her to graduate. Lucky for her, she found one related to her field that is also rewarding

By Andrew Merkle amerkle@statenews.com

A majority of college students consider internships before graduation. An internship is often an integral part of a resume and can make a recent college graduate more hirable in the eyes of potential employers. Sometimes an internship is required for graduation, such is the case for kinesiology senior Kaitlin Braun.

Braun interns with Special Olympics Michigan in the Area 8 office, which oversees Ingham and Eaton counties.

“For kinesiology … an internship is required for graduation. I got an email through a club called FLISE (Future Leaders in Sports and Entertainment) saying that the Special Olympics had an opening, and I’ve always loved working with kids so I figured why not try it out?”

Braun said. “I have never worked with special needs kids before so I was unaware what it would be like, but I really have loved the whole experience.”

Braun spends two days per week in two Lansing area schools assisting adaptive physical education teachers in gym class with special needs students. Braun also does office work at the Beekman Center in Lansing for the Area 8 office. Braun works with teachers Meredith DiMaria at Vivian Riddle Elementary and Allison Wonch who teaches physical education at Gardner Middle School.

“Every Monday is at the same elementary school with the same class, so it’s nice to get to know (the students) and so that they are more

comfortable around me,” Braun said.

“Same for the middle school — every Wednesday is with the same class at Gardner. … And our office is at Beekman, which is another school and they have classes and whatnot for people ages 3 to 26, but I only do office work there.”

Braun plans to go into medical sales after graduating, but a handson internship is required for graduation. Braun also said the internship with the Special Olympics could set her apart from other potential competitors in the job market.

“I’m looking to go into medical sales though, but for kinesiology some sort of physical activity is required with our internship, and this internship with the Special Olympics helps with that requirement,” Braun said. “Special Olympics is a very recognizable organization that everyone knows about and respects so that’s where I think I would have a leg up. But I’m drawn to medical sales because I’ve always liked sales and, since I have a medical background because of all my KIN classes. I think I have an advantage going into medical sales fresh out of college compared to someone who doesn’t have any medical background.”

According to Braun, medical sales consists of selling medical device equipment for large companies, such as Stryker. Braun is also considering pharmaceutical sales, which revolves around selling drugs for companies such as Pfizer. The internship with the Special Olympics Area 8 office also gives Braun the office experience she covets for her desired pro-

fessional career.

Braun said, “I think a lot of (the internship) is just working with people and getting over obstacles, and in my case it’s constantly a challenge, in the gym in particular. I was also drawn to it because of the ability to work independently and to learn a lot about office work and computer work because in the past I haven’t had any previous computer or office experience.”

The internship is not all work, however. This past week Braun and the rest of the Michigan Special Olympic offices made the trek to Traverse City, Michigan, for some fun and games in the snow.

“This last week was really cool because I went up to Traverse City with all of the Michigan areas for the Special Olympics Winter Games” Braun said. “Throughout the semester we will help out at basketball, gymnastics, skiing and other sport tournaments for the disabled athletes around the area.”

The best part for Braun is being able to watch the students enjoy themselves. According to the Special Olympics Michigan website, 919 athletes participated in this past weekend’s competition.

“The most rewarding part is seeing the athletes have fun. Gym class is their time to get out of the classroom and have fun with games and sports.

This past week was also life changing. … (The athletes) were able to win medals and were just very happy and upbeat the entire week despite being away from their families. It makes me feel very humbled working with this organization.”

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What to consider before that first internship

Then-senior special education major Christine Chern (left) stops by the Community Language School booth to speak with Heather Brown (middle) and Hannah Jenuwine (right) at the Earn, Learn & Intern Fair held on the fourth floor of Spartan Stadium on Sept. 8, 2012.

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Internships can be acquired in any city or state.

In some situations, students are offered the perfect internship — with the single flaw being its location hundreds of miles away from home.

“Even before they land that internship, it’s really important the student realistically assess the financial side of it,” Bill Morgan, on-campus internship coordinator for MSU Career Services Network, said.

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Consider your options A good place to start would be exploring what’s out there to find the best internship for you. Take advantage of the multiple career fairs held on campus each semester.

And be sure to think not only of where you want to live and work, but about what you can afford with the job.

Transportation Some students have an out-of-state internship they can drive their car to, but others might not be so fortunate. Morgan said it depends on the student’s specific location.

Slater drove his car to Nashville for his internship. He said he was fortunate to have moved when the gas prices were low, because he only spent about $80 on gas during his drive there.

“That was the good thing,” Slater said. “I filled up in Michigan when (gas prices) were like $1.70, and the most it was down here was $2.02 at the time.”

Transportation costs can vary for each internship location. In a big city, Morgan said students have to be prepared for subway fares and taxis, and, in a more rural area, students have to cover cost of gasoline.

Housing Morgan said once you find an internship, housing is one of the biggest factors to consider because short-term housing may be difficult to find.

“It’s not like in spending the weekend in Chicago where you need three nights in a hotel,” said Morgan. “It’s like three months of shortterm housing.”

Supply chain management sophomore Joe Slater took this semester off to intern in Nashville, Tennessee, at Ozburn-Hessey Logistics. Slater said it was hard to find affordable apartments near the city, so he settled for a cheaper apartment 20 minutes outside of Nashville.

Slater currently pays $900 per month in rent, including utilities.

Some internships offer on-sight housing, like advertising senior Samantha Kaufman. Kaufman accepted an internship in Minneapolis working as a copywriter for Target Corporate when she was 19.

The interns paid $250 per month for their apartment and were assigned a roommate.

“It was really convenient to not have to worry about finding housing,” Kaufman said.

Clothing Purchasing new clothes for a job depends on the type of work environment the student will be involved in.

“Let’s say it’s an office internship and you’re working five days a week,” said Morgan, “Are you going to wear the same suit every day for three months? Probably not, so you’re going to have to budget.”

Slater had to purchase new business casual clothing before moving. Slater found T.J. Maxx helpful while shopping because they offer polo brands for cheaper prices.

“I spent $300 to $400 maybe, and that covered everything like shoes, shirts and pants,” he said.

On the other hand, some internships do not require formal attire, such as for Kaufman. She said Target has a “dress for your day” policy, in which employees can wear casual clothes in the office.

Researching the company and surrounding area before applying or accepting an internship may be helpful for preparation.

“Put (away) a few extra dollars for the unknown, for emergencies, for fun, for exploring and for doing things beyond working,” Morgan said.

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