&gt; that students need to spend their spare time working on projects and battling for internships, or they&#x27;ll likely remain unemployed, that you&#x27;d be laughed out of the building.<p>Fighting over unpaid or underpaid internships and ass-kissing with professors so you don&#x27;t wind up unemployed is standard operating procedure in every industry <i>other than</i> tech.<p>I can&#x27;t believe the things my high school classmates in law and medicine put up with and how little money they stand to make until they hit 30.