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Be willing to do all the work I don’t want to do
I’m managing a remote intern rn and can tell you what I’ve told him.
The reality of internships now and forever is that you get out what you put in. Is your goal to get a job at the end of the internship? If yes, then make yourself indispensable - carve out a piece of the project that is yours, even if it’s small like maintaining documentation. That makes it more difficult to cut you loose.
I firmly believe that the function interships serve is to get your barrings on what you want to do for the rest of your life (or at least for the first few years of your career). So poke around documentation, shadow different roles and meetings in your free time. An understanding of all the different roles on a project and how they work together is a small thing that’s key to understanding important relationships, as well as risk assessment on projects later in your career. And you usually don’t get the time to shadow coworkers of different roles again in your career.
Network as much as you can. All the people you meet in your internship have contacts that can set you up with a killer job when you’re done with school. Reach out to people for ‘virtual coffee’ especially since you’re not getting face time in an office setting. Before you talk - stalk their linkedin and ask them all the questions about how they got to where they are and what advice they can share. People love talking about themselves, and even if it’s useless advice, it’ll endear you to them to let them brag for 30min.
Last few basic/obvious but underrated things - be one time for meetings and responsive on messages. Over communicate. Such a small thing that people will realllllyyy notice if you’re MIA since interns can’t get away with the “I’m so busy” excuses the rest of us can. Go out and hustle for your own work. A lot of people managing interns are also working their full time projects, so be easy to manage and provide value that wasn’t asked for.
Best of luck!
Bro just breathe and offer to help at least once
To give you a REAL answer, lol, take notes in meetings, ask thoughtful questions, help put PPTs together (of course ☺️)... I know it’s hard right now but try to soak in as much as you can.
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