The internship search process is stressful, nerve-racking, and tedious to say the least. After almost a year's worth of hard work, I finally got an internship. Time to celebrate you might think? Not yet. The internship is in New York City and I have to find an apartment to lease and up till now, this process has been just as stressful, nerve-racking, and tedious.
What I have learnt so far is that what everyone said about housing in New York is 100% correct. The houses are extremely small and the prices are extremely high. I had gone through a lot of websites claiming to be the best for interns and students, but they only offered apartments for the full summer term, but I am only in New York for a month so all of these websites are pretty much useless for me.
My saving grace came from Facebook groups where students from all around New York were sub-letting their apartments at a much more cheaper rate as compared to the rest and the dates are negotiable as well. I have messaged a few people from these groups and haven't finalized a place yet, but in the meantime, I am writing down my thoughts for this blog post. What I have learnt from this experience is that when it comes to a lot of things students are the only people that will help out other students.
So if any student is looking to intern in any city please check out the Facebook college group for that city, they will be of more help than any other website.
