Book smart but not on the job smart: Struggling on my first internship, any advice?

[Ns1]

tl;dr MY ENGLISH IS THE RIGHT ENGLISH

my 'murican is the only 'murican.

 

[purbeast0]

You guys are idiots for thinking he was bragging about being a rising star.
It didn't even cross your mind that he meant "between junior and senior year?"

no, everyone i know refers to that as "going to be a junior in the fall".

not knocking the kid for what he said or anything, just a term i've never heard.

 

[Markbnj]

no, everyone i know refers to that as "going to be a junior in the fall".

not knocking the kid for what he said or anything, just a term i've never heard.

Probably more common overseas or something. I never heard it either.

 

[JEDI]

Probably more common overseas or something. I never heard it either.

not england.. I went to oxford as a rhoades scholar.
they don't use that term either.

 

[yllus]

asdfghjkl, I screen resumes for 100+ university students, and then interview and hire 2 of them every 4 months for our software developer co-op program. I don't expect them to be able to contribute immediately. Most only become fully effective in the third month of their four-month term. All I can reasonably expect is that they bring their best in two areas:

1. They listen well. This is a surprisingly rare quality in people - the ability to really listen to business folk and communicate back to them how you plan to solve their problem. Usually people listen to the first few words of a question and then race ahead in their minds to propose the first thing that pops into their head. Listening takes maturity.

2. They bring massive enthusiasm to the job. Show me you care about your work, that you make a real effort to understand and even love the product you're working on, and I'll pour countless hours into making you succeed.

So don't sweat it - just make a genuine effort to listen and be enthusiastic and you'll go far.

 

[videogames101]

Turns out everything you're learning at school is mostly bullshit, the only skill you need is the ability to learn quickly. Your knowledge base is essentially irrelevant, because you'll be asked to do something new at every new job. I suppose I was lucky, in that I never made much of an effort to learn everything precisely in school because I'm lazy, and did great in internships anyway because I can pick things up quickly.

My advice is to take school less seriously. Seriously.

Also, just wing it more! Don't try to understand every detail, just fake your way through the process fixing small things as you run into them and eventually you'll actually have a really good understanding of the material.