SMART Career Choices

POLLS : HALLUCINATION — The Illusion of Readiness

Before internships, every student lives in a cute little bubble where textbooks look like superpowers and marks look like destiny. It’s not stupidity — it’s social programming. Internships don’t teach first. They un-hallucinate first.

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5. The Group-Project Deception: College group work teaches one skill: assigning blame in creative ways. Internships teach the real shocker, actual accountability.

Q5: How did college group projects prepare you for real teamwork?

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