Computer Science internships/co-op's have been discussed recently for UWF students. However, let me take some time to elaborate on internships/co-op's for engineering students. First of all, there is so much melodramatic trauma with dealing with the Co-op office. They handle everything as far as dealing with the business aspect of setting things up for the co-op for the students, or do they?
I will go as far as to say they actually get in the way of the co-op's for the engineering students. Although, the "office" they hold seems to set everything up, they are not very helpful at all. It's more like a self-esteemed "you represent me" scam that they are so self-indulged within themselves that they are only hurting the situation for the students, whereas the engineering students find the co-op's by talking to other students than any help from the co-op office.
Let's not even talk about that ghettofied, unglorified, so-badly-pathetic, cursed thing they call the UWF Career Page Website for helping and to aid in the search for co-op jobs. This is so hardcore ugly and unhelpful that it actually contained a fair amount of webpages written in the spanish language. I know we are in Florida, and there are a lot of people of the spanish/hispanic descent, but that's ridiculous.
But that's enough bashing the career site and the career office for now. But I was told that an engineering student makes almost $13/hr for a co-op job that he has to devote himself for 3 semesters long. That's decent here in the Pensacola, FL area. Hopefully, he gets all the experience needed to find a job.
The closure of this posting is that I would like to know from students at other universities if their career office is as lame as UWF's. The fact is that UWF's career office only gets in the way. I'm wondering if that's how it is for all other schools. It's hard to say, especially since I have never talked with any students at other universities. But I look forward to any comments on this post. Any UWF students partaking in current co-ops are free to post a comment, and I would love to hear your horror story :)
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UWF has the most international students compared to other universities. We have students form brazil, uk, japan, hong kong, china, india. But the UWF career office is just for US citizen students. The career ppl are not helpful at all.
IMO, the UWF career office plainout reeks. If you're looking to get an "internship," don't bother wasting your time: they're only interested in students who have a couple of semesters to devote to a "co-op." The last time (2nd) I went there was when the woman working there didn't even know how to make a resume!
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