Basically, the second you get to college, everyone in your life starts to ask you what you’re doing for the summer, and for the love of God, I DON’T KNOW YET!!!! Anyway… sorry about that. But, you know what I mean. Everyone will ask you this question. Friends, peers, parents, siblings, extended family, and even strangers will annoy you to death by simply trying to figure out what you will be doing throughout the summer. I mean, maybe it’s acceptable to have fun and “throw away” one more summer when you’re a freshman in college, but after that, it’s all about the experience because hey, let’s face it, if you don’t graduate college with 30 years of experience, no one will hire you. no one. But, applying to internships isn’t all that easy. Besides the fact that you have to apply to a million of them, you need to have a stellar resume and a cover letter that reads like it was written by all the CEO of Google combined with the styling of Maya Angelou. So, here are the struggles… explained by spongebob:
1. Struggling to find the time to apply because you also have to do that readings for that one class and send in that essay by 11:59 pm... oh and don’t forget that club meeting after dinner!
2. Seeking out all those connections and annoying them endlessly with emails because maybe they can just hand you an internship.
3. Realizing your resume and cover letter are absolute trash and you have to re-do it all.
4. So you sit down and do it……. but it takes all night long.
5. And when it comes to writing down your experience and the skills you have, you will honestly write anything that could be construed as something useful.
6. And then you have to figure out how to make your cover letter sound like you are exactly what they are looking for, but in reality, you look like this:
7. But eventually you start going crazy from trying to make everything about you sound perfect.
8. So you just move on and actually begin applying to internships.
9. And after all this time you devoted to applying, you have finally finished all the applications you wanted to do.
10. But now… it’s time to wait. Will you ever get hired?????
11. And you experience a whole range of emotions, including fear…
12. And anxiety…
13. And denial…
14. But one day, that email comes…
15. AND YOU’VE BEEN HIRED!!!!
So, just remember: it’s a stressful process for everyone to try and figure out what they are going to do for the summer, but it does all work out in the end, so keep pushing through, and see you on the other side!
