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The best part of receiving VIRA was that it let me treat research as the main thing rather than something squeezed around paid work. Unpaid research positions quietly filter out students who can’t absorb the cost of them, and the award removed that calculation for me.
Receiving the Violet Internship and Research Award made this opportunity feel like part of my NYU education, not a separate experience.
What I’d tell another student: Don’t let “unpaid” automatically become a “no.”









