While many local students are out protesting again this week, under more normal circumstances, summer internships would be starting right around now. But times are far from normal.

As companies are squeezed by COVID-19 spacing restrictions and the ongoing financial crisis, many have either rescinded summer internships or moved them entirely online, leaving this year’s students and recent grads disappointed to be missing out on the traditional summer internship experience — like grabbing iced coffees with, wait, was it two sugars or one?

America’s future workforce will also lose out on important in-person networking opportunities and on-the-job learning, from business-lunch etiquette (skip the spaghetti) to office politics. Some companies are trying to innovate, but this summer promises to be a challenge — especially when it’s mom or dad, and not a potential future work contact, telling you to go’fer coffee.

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