{"id":2085,"date":"2015-12-10T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2015-12-10T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:37:58","slug":"stacy-the-5-stages-of-grief-after-ending-an-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/12\/10\/stacy-the-5-stages-of-grief-after-ending-an-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacy: The 5 Stages of Grief after Ending an Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you’re interning at your dream company… and you are having an amazing time. But suddenly you get the e-mail telling you the password to your work e-mail is about to expire. You also get the e-mail from your internship coordinator in COM giving you the end of the semester paperwork to receive internship credit. How do you handle it? Through these stages:<\/p>\n

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Denial <\/b>– “Wait, so I don’t actually work here?”<\/div>\n
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After working for a company or organization for a semester… you almost feel part of it. However, come finals time… you realize there is a last day… and it comes quick.<\/div>\n
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Adjusting – <\/b>“Look at all the free time I have… it’s great….”<\/div>\n
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Not used to 16-20 free hours every week? How do you spend them once the internship is over? I guess there is Netflix… or you can exercise… or sleep? But who really wants to do those things?<\/div>\n
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Depression<\/b> – “Oh your internship still has another week? Mine already ended…”<\/div>\n
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Watching your friends continue dressing in their business casual while you… don’t. You’ve already finished all six seasons of White Collar and re-watched The Office, so I guess you can take up a hobby? Knitting or… watching the TV station you interned for….<\/div>\n
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Anger –\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>“So… there will be another me next semester?”<\/div>\n
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You realize there is a new intern every semester… someone who will do the same jobs you did, sit in the same seat you did and have the same opportunities. You consider re-applying for the same internship.. but you know it’s wrong.<\/div>\n
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Acceptance – <\/b>“I wonder where I’ll intern next!”<\/div>\n
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You finally understand that there is so much in your future college career to embark on, and you can take the experiences from your past internships – and use them in the future.<\/div>\n
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So you’re interning at your dream company… and you are having an amazing time. But suddenly you get the e-mail telling you the password to your work e-mail is about to expire. You also get the e-mail from your internship coordinator in COM giving you the end of the semester paperwork to receive internship credit. … Continue reading Stacy: The 5 Stages of Grief after Ending an Internship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44404],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}