3 Intern Blogs You Should be Reading

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Beginning an internship can be quite stressful, especially your first internship with a large company. Luckily, there are many helpful blogs that offer tips and advice from other interns’ experiences.

1. Ed2010: Ed’s Intern Diaries

Ed2o1o.com is known for its helpful information regarding magazine and media internships, jobs, and advice. Additionally, the website has an anonymous Intern Diaries blog platform.  The interns write about their experiences in their particular departments, without releasing specific information such as what company they are working for, their name, and sometimes their location. The advice ranges from mid-internship review to “Office Gossip.”

2. Her Campus: Intern Diaries

HerCampus.com which is tailored specifically for college women brings in it’s Intern Diaries by discussing helpful advice  and problems that interns could possibly run into. Of course fashion tips and healthy eating snacks are thrown into the mix. One helpful post I suggest interns read is The Intern Survival Kit. One helpful exert from the Intern Survival Kit reads:

 Okay, I will admit I have always been the girl that refuses to buy “sensible” shoes (all of the high heels in my closet are at least 4 inches tall), but when you work in a corporate office running up and down hallways and stairs going to meetings all day it is completely necessary to have comfy flats to wear.

3. The Washington Post: That Intern

This hilarious blog specifying “That” intern by interesting things interns decide to do or they way they behave while interning at various companies. While the reads are helpful, they tend to be a source of intern comic relief.  There’s the “Escalefter Intern“, the “Super-Old Intern“, and many other funny favorites. One helpful passage from the “Escalefter Intern” reads, “Pedestrian traffic halts, and people shout at the escalefter intern: Stand on the right! The left is for walking! Move! Get out of the way!”

Check out these interesting and informative blogs periodically during your internship so you can learn from other interns’ mistakes.