On: Suspicious Discontinuities

[mgraczyk]

I have firsthand experience of the frustration that these sort of discontinuities can cause. I lost all financial aid and nearly all "scholarship" money my senior year of undergrad after my 6 month coop at Intel put me over some income limits (probably around $33k per year). All told, I was probably ~$5k ahead compared to where I would have been with the scholarships and without the income.

Still, it would have been nice to do something more productive than spend six months at Intel for ~5k after taxes.

[vxNsr → mgraczyk]

Presumably the experience itself helped you get other jobs that would’ve been unattainable had you not had a prestigious internship at intel.

[mgraczyk → vxNsr]

Intel is not prestigious in the US software job market. Literally nobody I have interviewed with has ever asked me about my time at Intel.

[daniel-thompson → vxNsr]

Sure, but the person would have been in the same boat no matter what specific logo was hanging over the door.