Honestly, I found my internship by sheer luck. Before the semester, I had spent months searching for internships left and right. I applied for over twenty since October 2017, but only one had responded back. The company I was originally supposed to intern for was WorkOf, which is a furniture company based in the DUMBO area of Brooklyn. They responded to my application in early January by asking for a phone interview. I had a phone interview with the company’s COO four days later as scheduled, and it seemed like it was positively received. The COO said that I was definitely going to get a callback for a one-on-one interview in the next week. However, that never happened. I waited the entire week with no response. To make the situation even more questionable, I was only allowed to message them back about the internship duties as opposed to reminding them about my application if they were too busy to remember it.

At this point, I was in a complete panic. I applied for even more internships after that week of waiting for their callback only to not obtain any newer opportunities. I ended up having to start the semester with no internship whatsoever.  With only one week left to find an internship, I remembered that I had a handout for Internship.com lying around. As I had nothing left to lose, I applied for three internships on that website, and one of them responded to me an hour later asking to set up an interview. The company was Lanchid LLC, which is a consulting agency located near the Flatiron District. Obviously, I agreed to have the interview, which was the easiest interview I ever had since it was clear from the presentation of my portfolio that they wanted to hire me. Two days later, I got hired, and I started interning for them one week after the interview.