The University of Alberta has an excellent internship program, with over 90% placement. You can see a list of placements for this year here. The companies offering internships to U of A students include IBM, RedHat, Electronic Arts, various municipal/provincial/federal government organizations, as well as a ton of smaller companies. I will be starting my internship this May with Statistics Canada. It is a 16 month placement, so all the credit is earned at one position. This is in contrast to the more traditional multiple 4-8 month placements seen mostly in engineering. The 16 month term allows a student to really get involved in the project. Overall, I think the U of A has an excellent program set up that will leave the graduates who choose to take part in the program ahead of the field in terms of experience.
These quotes just prove how history repeats itself. My only hope is that this time, we may learn from the mistakes of the past.
"A tyrant...is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." -- Plato
"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." -- Henry Steele Commager
"'For your own good' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction." -- Janet Frame
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay
"No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the façade of democratic institutions." -- Murray B. Levin
"The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny." -- Michael Parenti
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." -- Daniel Webster
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." -- Thomas Jefferson
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The University of Alberta has an excellent internship program, with over 90% placement. You can see a list of placements for this year here. The companies offering internships to U of A students include IBM, RedHat, Electronic Arts, various municipal/provincial/federal government organizations, as well as a ton of smaller companies. I will be starting my internship this May with Statistics Canada. It is a 16 month placement, so all the credit is earned at one position. This is in contrast to the more traditional multiple 4-8 month placements seen mostly in engineering. The 16 month term allows a student to really get involved in the project. Overall, I think the U of A has an excellent program set up that will leave the graduates who choose to take part in the program ahead of the field in terms of experience.
These quotes just prove how history repeats itself. My only hope is that this time, we may learn from the mistakes of the past.
"A tyrant...is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
-- Plato
"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive."
-- Henry Steele Commager
"'For your own good' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."
-- Janet Frame
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it."
-- John Hay
"No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the façade of democratic institutions."
-- Murray B. Levin
"The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny."
-- Michael Parenti
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C.S. Lewis
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
-- Daniel Webster
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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