As students, before graduation, it is required for all of us to take 2- month internship at least in a company, research institute or laboratory to get an insight of the job that you are about to work in future. It also helps us to explore and understand deeper about how things we learnt in university are applied in reality. This is also a chance for you to collect all information that might be useful for your thesis that will be coming right after internship. Generally, it is a milestone step that connects your studying in school and your future work.
However, you might face with some difficulties during this internship. Firstly, you need to adjust your schedule to fit with working hours which normally start from 7am till 5pm. To work at 7 am would be a terrible thing for those who normally have classes in the afternoon. And you will have to get used to with working 8 hours continuously with a short lunch break instead of your leisure time before.
Secondly, you need to adapt with new culture where relations are getting more complicated. You need to build your new network/relationship. And you will get used to that you will have a boss/coach and other colleagues.
Thirdly, another difficulty that you might face is how you can get coach from others and learn as much as possible during the internship. Some of my friends complained that they didn’t have many things to do and learn during this time. To me, it depends on many factors. Your coach is possibly too busy to coach you. Or he/she is not willing to coach. You are not well preferred in that group due to your poor communication.
So those are just some difficulties that you can face during the internship. But some of my friends still enjoy it very much. How about you guys?
1. What is your major?
· Where did you have the internship?
· When was that?
· How long did it last? Do you want to extend or shorten it? Why?
· How did you get that internship? From your school? Friends?
· How many days a week do you have to go?
2. Did you get paid during the internship? What do you think if they don’t pay you for the internship? Why?
3. How was the internship? What did you learn?
4. Did you receive much coaching during that time? Why? What happened? What did you do?
5. Did you have any interesting things during that time? What are they?
6. Did you have any difficulty? What happened?
7. Do you have any advice for students?
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