Hey Edsters,
So, this may be a weird topic to bring up mid-internship,
but I learned this week that ‘keeping in touch’ is not just reserved for emails
between you and your internship supervisor.
First of all, I have no idea what kind of animal the phrase
“keep in touch!” really is. I used to think it was just something that
supervisors felt obligated to say at the end of an internship. But really, I thought, who wants loads of emails in their inbox
about whatever my next internship happened to be?
Case in point: 1.5 years ago, I bussed into New York City
over the winter semester to complete my first big magazine industry internship.
It was a glorious lesson in what really went down at one of my favorite
magazines. As it turns out, it involved a lot of twelve-hour days and aching
feet, accompanied by falling asleep over dinner every single night.
I’m sure some of you have experienced the same.
At the end of my 4 weeks, I walked off with an inordinate
amount of free clothes, a pat on the back, and that silly phrase ringing in my
ears: “Keep in touch!” I wasn’t exactly sure what that meant; but ever the
optimist, I was like ‘hey, this is really cool, I AM going to keep in touch via
a email every couple of months or so.’
In February, I emailed with well wishes and a little bit of
gushing about how cool it was to see spreads that I had worked on come to life
in the March issue.
No response.
