Internship (n): a 3-month rite of passage in which individuals at the bottom of the professional food chain strive to “prove themselves” while not looking completely lost

If you are or have ever been an intern, you’ll relate to every one of these internship feels.

Hearing another intern complain but secretly it makes you happy because you know they’ll never make it

Greeting a co-worker whose name you don’t know, and having to point and call them “you”

Running like a crazy person to make it on time because your train was delayed…again

Being assigned to a special project your peers didn’t get

When you start your first internship and you can’t believe anyone has left you in charge

Walk out of the office feeling accomplished like

When your friends are still talking about classes but you’re focused on an actual job  

When your friends ask if you want to go out on a Wednesday

When you hear another intern complaining or gossiping

Waiting for everyone to leave the kitchen so you can hoard the free snacks

When you finally learn how to use excel and impress your boss by doing a mail merge

When you and your boss like to talk about the same weird tv shows during team lunch

Me: Of course I know how to use Excel!

Also me:

Trying to stay awake in class because you’ve been prioritizing your internship

When you get to join in on the office perks

When someone that’s not your boss tries to get you to do a coffee run for them

When your parents question how much effort you put into your internship thinking you should focus on academics but then you land a job because of it and you’re all like

Have internship feels of your own? Share them in the comments with a corresponding gif!

Special thanks to Samantha Baselice, Amber Young, Jamie Shum, Nick Schweers, Claudia LaMadrid, Tiffany Tapia, and Edwin Gino Raagas for contributing their internship feels.

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