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Interns Log - Week 2

It is week two down here at the intern battle front. We just wrapped up today's meeting where we planned this week's video and talked about tornadoes. I was always under the misconception that it would be fun to ride a tornado; however, I was promptly corrected that although they may look cute and innocent they are actually quite deadly. In a perfect world I picture tornadoes having the same effect as broken fire hydrant. You know the scene, fire hydrant starts spewing water everywhere and all the kids run to it for a good time. In my own world I would like to see that for tornadoes, but alas, I live on earth. A fact that is slowly starting to sink in. Having said that here is the scoop.

Finding the right internship is like the situation I described above. I may be reaching but hear me out. At first, much like a tornado, it seems like fun. Sprucing up your resume, composing brilliantly over the top cover letters about how you have always dreamed about working for (whatever company), stories about how you have posters of banking moguls and white collar heroes that you have hung on your wall for inspiration, and interviews galore! Here is the thing though, once you get a little closer it starts to get scary (like the tornado). The interviewers as a rule are almost never as excited as you, there are deadlines that approach quickly, there are many other studs in the stable, and here is where it gets even more frightening. They may even reject you. At least take comfort in the fact that if you ever look a tornado in the face it will treat you with the same respect it treats everyone else.

How do you find the right internship you say? Well that's a great question. For me it was a process of elimination, as in I was eliminated from some of the internships I applied for. Sounds tough but actually it is a blessing in disguise because A) it makes your choice easier and B) sometimes companies know better than you if you are cut for the sort of work they offer or if you would even like it. At least such was the case with myself. As I am starting to get my feet wet in this company I realize that this sort of environment is probably what I was cut out for or what I cut myself out for. Either way I feel pretty lucky to have found an internship I like. I still do not know what I want to do when I graduate, but at least I know which direction I want to head in. I know it sounds pretty vague and so forth and what about those of us who were not so fortunate to find an internship they like? Well take the experience and use it for what it's worth on your resume is all I can say. People value perseverance.

Anyways today I am working on a new video with Kate. We are going around the company to interview people from various departments and ask them how they got started in their line of business. I haven't started the interviews yet but I imagine there will be as many different stories as there are different people. People who knew from the start, people who sort of fell into their jobs, and people who figured it out the hard way. I guess the best piece of advice is this and perhaps best put by the late Tupac, and that is "Baby don't cry, you gosta keep ya head up, even when the road is hard never give up." Basically, keep your heads up and don't settle until you feel right. Thats all for today.

Buenos Dias,

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