Quote Originally Posted by Cheesecake
Go ahead.
Okay so here's how a co-op works:
I attend my university for fall and spring semester for my first and second year of college. Then in the summer semester after my second year, I attend co-op. Then in the fall semester, I attend my university, then spring semester I attend co-op, and so on and so forth until I graduate.

A co-op is like an internship, except I get paid (and get paid pretty well). It is a program for engineering students so they get real experience in their field before they graduate and nine times out of ten, the company you co-op'd for will hire you full time when you graduate college.

In my case, I'm waiting until the fall of my 3rd year (fall of 2012) to go on co-op and I will be taking classes this summer. Basically, I never have summer break again. T-T