Internship-Work: Maintaining Your Track Record
At your internship, you may feel that a lot of the work you are doing is meaningless and will provide no value to you in the future, but it is extremely unlikely that is the case. Each piece of work you hand in to your bosses at a company is an example of what you are capable of; regardless of its significance, it can be something you show to potential companies in your future. After doing so much busy work and assignments at an internship, it can be difficult to figure out where exactly everything you’ve done has ended up. You definitely can’t rely on your organization to keep track of it for you, so you should figure out an efficient system of tracking your work along your own terms.
One good way to do this is simply carrying a flash drive with ample memory space on it. Each time you compile work on a computer, just stick in your flash drive and quickly save the file onto it. This way, you will always have backups on your person of the accomplishments you have made at any given position. This method might not be for you, and an easy alternative is just backing up everything via email. You can save the email exchanges to a folder in your email account by applying labels and folder organization parameters to the email addresses you are exchanging work with. Someday, you will be glad you have all the work you produced in past internships when applying for a full time position in a firm.
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