Modern Day Slavery- Unpaid Internship

I'm a third year college student, I'm at the point in my life where the fact that I will soon be thrown into the work force will soon be a reality. As a junior, I am encouraged to do an internship because it looks good on a college resume, so I did. I put on my best suit and went to my school's career fair, where 200+ companies and businesses came to look for "vulnerable fresh students" looking to sell their souls to get a chance to intern or get a job and I was one of them. I had a couple of interviews with a few companies but I decided to intern with a finance company as a social media intern, I chose them because the location was near school and the commute wasn't that bad. When I began working the workload wasn't bad, the president of the company was really handsome, and I was using the knowledge from what I had learned and researched to help the company growing socially, but one thing wasn't sitting well with me... I wasn't getting PAID!! 

I was interning with this company four days a week from 9am-4pm. Afterwards running to school for my evening class, by the time I was done with class I was exhausted! Most of my time was consumed with interning, school, and homework. The amount of work I was putting in was the same amount as a full-time employee but wasn't getting paid all in the name of interning, any money I had was going into transportation and food for lunch. My parents were supporting me financially just to do free work, and that's why I call some internships, modern-day slavery. 

            As college students, we are spending all this money on a college education. Most of us, working jobs to pay for it. It's sad that in this economy some companies are even now considering a Bachelor's degree to be equivalent to having a high-school diploma, the workforce is becoming so competitive that we have to do these unpaid internships. Studying a major for four years and bussing your a** paying for it, isn't enough anymore. We need to intern, join societies, clubs, and still maintain a good GPA. Companies are just capitalizing off this, I'm not against internships, even though I wasn't getting paid, it was still a great opportunity for me. I just feel like these companies, take advantage of some of these college students by not paying and interns do A LOT, (sometimes more than the actually employees of the company) I'm not saying pay us like full-time employees but damn give us something....

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