@picandor oh yeah, nah, it's ridiculous.

The joke in humanities degrees is that the only benefit a UN internship gives you is that you can put your foot in the door at the various non-governmental organizations (and only after you FINISH the internship). That's it.

You don't actually get any "work experience" (aside from delivering coffees and papers), you're treated as a slave, you're not given a living wage, you have to travel there yourself (and pay), you don't have set hours.

There are people who may think "sure, I'll sacrifice in order to get that on my resume", but for me, it was a straight-up "fuck no, and fuck you".