Summer is drawing to a close and soon we'll return to the hallowed halls of learning. But first - let us take a step back and recall the glorious days of summer. If you were lucky, like me, you had an awesome internship in which you were busy every day and actually used what you learned at school. But alas, that is not always the case, and even the best internships have their slow days. So without further delay - a recap of typical intern activities:
1. Drinking- Water. Coffee. Water. Coffee. Hydrate. Diuretic. Hydrate. Diuretic. All day every day, the smaller the coffee cup or water bottle, the more times you had to leave your desk and go fill it up. Here's to scoping out the water fountain furthest from your desk and hoping nobody noticed you tried to make a mocha using chocolate milk.
2. The Bathroom - On the hour every hour. Just kidding. More like, approximately 37 minutes after you finished your last cup-of-something, you felt that unmistakable sensation that signifies adventure time. At "a good stopping point" (aka after exiting Microsoft Excel), you set out to the furthest bathroom away from your desk and returned approximately 2.5 minutes later.
3. Bothered the actual employees - All you wanted was to help with anything. After being overscheduled for 10 months out of the year, being underscheduled was just too much emptiness to handle. Edit that SolidWorks file? Don't give it to the SolidWorks specialist, I'll take care of it for you. Complete that structural design? I got a D on that test but sure I'll give it a shot. Scan and name files that are in Japanese? Restack the papers in the empty cubicle? Get lunch? Coffee? Anything?
4. Read articles online - This is your time to explore all of those things you never had time to during the school year. What even is Hyperdulia? How many airplanes crashed in 1982? How does one make the best драники? After all, independent exploration is really crucial to your growth as a person.....
5. Snapchat your friends - They really want to see a picture of your AutoCAD. You really want to see their spreadsheet. A mere 60 seconds later, you're both back to square one. -___-
6. Read past job files - That entire report probably nobody important read? You read every word, even the charts. Those back drawer telephone logs from 1994? You read them. Turns out a delivery was two hours late and really held up some project, but somehow the world kept turning. When you questioned your actions, you reminded yourself that one can definitely “learn a lot about the industry” from “just reading all the material you can get your hands on”.
7. Redid old work and procrastinated new work - That project you turned in a week ago? Might be something wrong with it, guess you should run the calcs again. That drawing you're supposed to edit? If you fix it now you won't have anything to do in an hour. Edit it line, by line, by line...
8. Thought about what restaurant you're going to eat at next - JK. You're an intern and you sit at a desk all day. You have basically no money and you burn like 20 calories in 8.5 hours. Going out was bad for you and your cash stash, but sometimes you did it anyways, and it was worth every. Freaking. Bite.
9. Look at the clock - Eventually, you knew exactly what two minutes felt like.
10. Text your mom and panic - I can't live in the real world. I can't pick a career. Pls come visit me and make my dinner, mom. You're an adult mom how do you ever do it? I love you mom can't wait to see you mom.
At some point - you knew it was time to go back to school - until you came across that selfie from 12:36 am 9th week Winter Quarter.
