Internships are a great way to spend your summer as you get a comprehensive understanding of the profession you wish to pursue. Your colleagues will give you insight about your job which may help you decide whether this is the right profession. Many organizations, such as clinics and advertisement agencies in Dubai, accept interns.
Summer programs are intensive and shorter than internships. These programs take place in universities like Oxford for a couple of weeks where you can study subjects like Film or Mathematics. These programs are highly educational and interactive as you are being taught by highly qualified professors. Apart from this, you get to go on excursions and trips with people you make lifelong friendships with.
Volunteer work is much needed nowadays. You can tutor children at a special needs school or work at an animal shelter. There’s so much you can do to help the community and offer a hand. Also, it is better to stick to one service for a couple of months than to do many different types of work, because it’s better to see commitment to one cause.
Online courses can really boost your knowledge in certain subjects. Colleges appreciate it when students do more than they are required to, whether it is in terms of academics or extracurricular activities. Coursera is an online education company that offers courses, specialisations, and degrees from 150 of the world’s top universities and educational institutions, including Stanford and Yale. They have hundreds of courses ranging from Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies to Buddhism and Modern Psychology that you can benefit from.
You could also learn a new language, which would makes you an international student. If you know Spanish, for example, companies in South (and even North) America will consider your resume more strongly than someone who only knows English or only one language. Many institutes in the UAE, like Eton, offer many classes on languages like Spanish and Swedish.

By Sasha Kumar | Special to GN Focus

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