Interns

It's summer, which means my engineering firm is being flooded with interns.

Intern: Someone who will do literally whatever you want in exchange for a recommendation letter.

In the field of engineering, one could fairly reasonably argue that internships are as important, if not more important, than collegiate coursework. Good interns usually get a job offer from the company that hosted them, or get well-written rec letters that propel them to other companies. Internships help define what kind of engineer a person is going to be, either by directing them to jobs for which they should apply after graduation, or by giving them a specific skillset that makes them attractive to only a few engineering trades post-graduation.

What scares me about interns is that they are getting younger. And of course, they aren't getting younger, I am just getting older. The doe-eyed kid-terns just walked by, and I felt like an old man.


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