Since early June, Celentano has commuted by plane once a week to her summer internship at Ogilvy Health in Parsippany, New Jersey, from her parent's house in Charleston, South Carolina.
Celentano didn't want to join the legions of summer interns fighting for affordable housing in and around New York City.
And her job only requires her to be in the office — about a 45-minute drive from downtown Manhattan — once, sometimes twice, per week.
For Celentano, commuting four-plus hours by plane weekly was a much easier pill to swallow than paying New York rent for three months on an intern's salary.
"I didn't think twice about it," Celentano, a rising senior at the University of Virginia, tells CNBC Make It.
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