{"id":1231,"date":"2013-04-21T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T03:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2013-05-08T18:38:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T01:38:28","slug":"internship-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/internship-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In software engineering, internships and self-directed projects have become far more valuable to the students&#8230; than any university class. And they have become more valuable to employers&#8230; than any formal credential, class taken, or grade point average.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Students] will be motivated to formally learn about linear algebra when working on a computer graphics apprenticeship at Pixar or Electronic Arts. They will want to learn accounting when working under the CFO of a publicly traded company. [&#8230;]\u00a0One of the primary roles of the college itself would be to ensure the internships are challenging and intellectual; that they truly do support a student&#8217;s development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Salman Khan, <a href=\"http:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2013\/1\/158766-what-college-could-be-like\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">What College Could Be Like<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In software engineering, internships and self-directed projects have become far more valuable to the students&#8230; than any university class. And they have become more valuable to employers&#8230; than any formal credential, class taken, or grade point average. &#8220;[Students] will be motivated to formally learn about linear algebra when working on a computer graphics apprenticeship at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/internship-university\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Internship University&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}