Internships

I'm still looking at summer internships, and I find they fall into three categories:

1. Paid internships
Clearly the best.

2. Unpaid internships
Good if you're going into a competitive field and need the experience. And if you're rich or don't sleep.

3. Unpaid internships for required class credit
The worst of the bunch -- not only are you not paid, buy you have to pay and pay a lot for the privilege of being there, a la Teaching Media. But at Medill, you don't actually GET credit for this sort of internship -- the course you register for is a zero-credit course because they won't let you count anything other than TM. I can't say that they make you pay for a noncredit course, but that's only because I don't know.