maile yo summer internship garnu parcha but i didnt know that we need the OPT/work permit card for that. My school semester ends in may first week and someone told me it takes 3 months for the work permit. is there anythign else i can do? DO i need any kind of authorization for an unpaid internship? and if i get a paid intership can i get my way around or is it impossible...
my school's international student advisor is the biggest bitch ever and everytime i ask her something she literally Yells at me for my lack of time management and all that crap. so there is no way in hell that i can get any productive information out of her cuz she is a true red neck constipated bit**.
SO please help me. Any ideas?

Apply for work permit , if you are lucky , you will get it in time else you are FUKED BIG TIME
Good Luck!

As far as I know, You have to apply for for the OPT or CPT even if you are workin for an unpaid internship.

If you are not graduating this semester, you can work as an intern in CPT -Curricular Practical Training. However, you have to register for some credit hour class to do that and a permission from your program director. You don't even have to send any documents to USCIS.
However, if you are graduating this semester and plan to do an internship in summer, you have to have your OPT approved by USCIS. You should apply at your earliest for that, it takes at least 6 weeks to get it approved which used to take almost 3 months in the past. Regarding your international advisor, if you are graduating this semester, she is right when she said you didn't manage it well. You should have applied for your OPT earlier to get it on time, dude.
Hope this helps.

If it's an unpaid summer internship, you do NOT need an OPT; however, if you graduate from your current course of study in Summer and want to work after graduation then you need one and yes, it takes a long time for one of these things to come through.

Be careful when applying for the OPT because to the best of my knowledge, they are available for students after you complete a course of study i.e. if you get one right now while you are still in school, you may not be able to apply for it after you graduate from your current program.

If your foreign student advisor is of no help then, your other options are to either call the local USCIS office or talk to a lawyer.

Yes, you need to have an OPT to do summer internships, but of course there are ways to get around it.

First of all, be friends witih people whom you need, especially the international student advisor. They could prove invaluable. As others have already pointed out, ifyou can somehow get credits for the internship you do, then you don't have to apply for the OPT; you can get away with the CPT, which your college should issue without having to deal with the INS. It does not cost money, and it doesn't take long too. But to get credits from the internship, you have to be again friends with professors from related departments. Believe me, this works, even if the job you do is not that related to any course offered by the department.

"CPT" is your ANSWER !!