Bon Voyage, fair interns: You brought youth and vitality, spilled it onto my going out shirt, and now you will go away. Take these pieces of knowledge back to your Arizona State University, back to UConn, back to Fordham (is this even a real university? I question.) Tell your friends, go to your classes, and next time you come back be ready to not run up the real estate market with daddy's money.
Things You Will Tell People You Learned In DC (and What You Really Learned):
How to Take Metro (You really learned that you don't like public transportation because it requires you to wait, to be patient, and to sit with people who smell. From now on you will drive everywhere and then complain about traffic. When you return I recommend living in Northern Virginia)
How Things Work in Our Nation's Capital (how happy hours work, what the best place to hook up is, where to get things drycleaned, that your office internet filter doesn't recognize myspace or facebook yet, so you spent countless hours updating your profile about your going to happy hours and hooking up)
How to Make It On Your Own (if Dad paid for almost everything, then basically you didn't learn anything. Keep that in mind- that's kind of the way it will work for the rest of your life.)
How to Work Hard (you really figured out the most important skill you ever will come across- looking busy at work while really continuing to do things that matter to you. Well done. Don't forget this, it is the holy grail of working.)
That's all you learned. Trust me. I was watching you.
2 comments:
Where have all the interns gone? Where have all the blog posts gone???
eYou forgot an important lesson that they learned: how to call themselves "young professionals" without a tinge of irony.
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