Tools you had to learn

[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.