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Top 10 Tips for Success in a Summer Internship

Dean Chen, WG '07

Issue date: 4/9/07 Section: Insider
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10. To minimize distractions and maximize modeling time, eliminate bathroom breaks by wearing space-age astronaut diaper to office. (On outside of pants)

9. London Interns: Lose the toothbrush.

8. Negotiate for elevated salary by flaunting your perfect 360-degree feedback sheet. When refused, moan quietly about the lack of level 5 leaders in the world.

7. Ease the pain of Pub withdrawal by stealing pizza from inattentive cafeteria workers and doing keg-stands in your cube.

6. If a colleague speaks past his appointed time in a firm-wide conference, calmly request that he stop. Then punch him in the face.

5. Midwest Interns - signal intention to remain in Minneapolis, MN indefinitely by adopting faux-Canadian accent, wearing Viking helmet to work.

4. Be very nice to the ABP cashier (especially the one with the snub-nosed .45 tucked into his waistband).

3. After a full-year year at Wharton, you may feel it appropriate to begin dancing on the nearest elevated surface at the strike of midnight. Do not do this at your office.

2. Don't be this guy: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/cas/306693956.html

1. Establish a mutually beneficial working relationship with summer supervisor by pledging to pay him 2% of your full-time signing bonus.
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