College Student Revisits Highs and Sweet'n Lows of Summer Newspaper Internship
For his first “Just Add Coffee” column of the fall 2012 school year, San Jose State University student and The Spartan Daily production-art director Leo Postovoit (pictured) focuses tongue-in-cheek on his just completed four-month unpaid summer internship at the San Francisco Chronicle.
He writes that cat video playlists outnumbered his output of straight journalism, and that Giants-Dodgers trash talk took precedence over completed graphics. He also shares his unusual big-picture view of what lies ahead after graduation:
It seemed that this internship may have on the surface been about a specific trade or task that I had committed to, but on a much deeper level, it was about building a ritualized interpersonal relationship with the people you meet…
At some level, as we get into our professions and higher up the pay scales, we pretend that we’re leaping from one rung of a ladder we’ve climbed.
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