Well, I don't know about your schools, but for mine, in order to get an internship approved for credit, there is an "application" that needs to be filled out, including a 2 page essay, "discussing the type of field work activity you aspire to and overall goals, academic and professional as an intern. Commenting on your skills and talents, and areas of expertise that you have and hope to develop."

I'm trying to get an internship with one of the creative departments at Comedy Central. The biggest obstacle in my way is getting credit for it. Here is the essay I am submitting:

Aspiration, much like perspiration, is something that every college student will inevitably experience during his or her tenure. Indeed, in order to achieve such aspirations, the student will surely produce some perspiration. The internship can serve as a sort of deodorant spray, which would suppress the stench of inexperience in the unwashed youth of today.

Some students might aspire to be engineers or perhaps medical professionals, some students aspire to perspire (as athletes), and others among us prefer a finer direction for our careers. One that will exercise and embellish upon the creative sectors of our developing student minds; of course, I’m speaking of the wide world of button and zipper sales!

Who wouldn’t want to get involved in the fast growing and exciting industry of fastener sales? I know I do. With so much creative output in these markets, it’s as if we are approaching a new renaissance of fastener technology. No industry is more vital to the American economy and lifestyle. Why, without buttons, how would we keep our shirts on? They simplify our lives, just like the quantum accelerators that came before them; these innovative devices are giving Americans – and the world – a new way of looking at things.

This is a business that every liberal arts student with creative juices flowing through his or her veins should want to get involved in. What better way to put to use all of the skills learned through a University-level education? I certainly can’t see any, and I have as much creative juice flowing through my bloodstream as a supermarket full of Ocean Spray; and that stuff isn’t cheap either!

Sure, I’ve worked in other industries, writing unfulfilling radio advertisements for local brewers of beer, for example. Who could truly feel like they are contributing creatively to society in a job like that? A job without hours or structure, where the entire purpose of your day is to sit around and think! What kind of creativity is that? It’s certainly not for me – that is for sure. I’d much prefer the fast-paced world of button and zipper sales to that prison!

You see, for a student to enter into a dream industry such as this is akin to a Buddhist achieving nirvana. Contrary to what some early 90’s “hipsters” may try to tell you, nirvana can’t be bought in a record store. Indeed, career nirvana would be a state where you were completely satisfied with what you are doing. I think that is what we are all trying to achieve.

Yada Yada... I hope they give me credit for it...

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