Find the perfect experience in a few steps
Start over[Customize!] First mentor
Take a photo with the colleague your company has assigned as your buddy or mentor. (Organizers: replace this with a specific question the intern should ask their mentor before snapping the photo.)
[Customize!] Internship origin
Take a photo at the spot where the company first hired interns or where the intern program is run from. (Organizers: pick a real spot, person or moment in your intern history and tell the new intern what they are looking for.)
[Customize!] Local intern hangout
Photograph yourself at the lunch or after-work spot interns from this company traditionally go. (Organizers: name the actual place and tell the intern who to go with.)
Coffee for two
Make coffee for yourself and offer one to a colleague. Whether they accept or politely refuse, photograph the two cups. The gesture counts.
Emergency snack
Locate the snack stash you will rely on for the rest of your internship. Photograph the inventory before someone else raids it.
End-of-day notebook
Photograph the page in your notebook (or a screenshot of your digital notes) with everything you learned today.
Fellow intern
Find another intern on site. Take a photo together. If you are the only intern in the building, befriend the youngest-looking employee instead.
First-day ID
Take a photo of your fresh ID badge, lanyard or visitor sticker. The first official "you work here" moment.
First-task photo
Photograph the first real task you completed today, no matter how small. Even if it is just a doc you wrote your name on.
Mid-day status
At exactly midday, take a selfie with one word that describes how it is going so far. Write it next to the photo.
Office wildlife
Find an office pet, mascot or recurring decoration that has a name (the plant, the rubber duck, the haunted printer). Photograph it.
Shadow shot
Sit in on a meeting today. After it ends, take a photo of the whiteboard, doc or notes that came out of it (no faces unless the room agrees).
Signature wall
Find a wall, board, notebook or guestbook where employees leave a mark (a name, a Polaroid, a sticker). Add yours and photograph the result.
Supervisor in the wild
Take a photo of your supervisor in their natural habitat: at their desk, mid-explanation, mid-coffee. Permission required, hidden camera not allowed.
The advice scroll
Collect one piece of advice from three different colleagues. Write them down on paper or sticky notes, photograph the trio.
The cool corner
Find the unofficial "cool" hangout spot in the office: the right couch, the right kitchen, the table everyone gravitates to. Take a photo of yourself there.
The intern desk
Photograph the desk you have been parked at. Note: it is unlikely to be your forever desk. Treasure the temporary chaos.
The lunch tax
Pay the unwritten "intern tax": eat lunch with people you have not met yet. Take a photo of the table (food, faces, awkwardness all welcome).
The senior interview
Find a colleague with 10+ years at the company. Ask them what their first internship was like. Take a photo together.
Tools you had to learn
Photograph the software, system or login that took you the longest to figure out today. Shake your fist at it for the photo.