21.You'll be sent out to the National Mall in 120% humidity to reserve a softball field for your office team THAT YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PLAY ON.
22.And you'll have to ask your parents for ANOTHER loan so you can buy the $7 happy hour beer.
You'll realize that you had to sit and reserve a softball field as a part of your internship:
23.And you'll go into work hungover the next day:
24.When your manager finds you cruising Facebook, Twitter, BuzzFeed....
...you just resort to this:
25.You will have to sit and take notes through hours of mind-numbingly boring panels and hearings that you truly know nothing about.
26.You'll have to live up to those damn SCOTUS super interns that make you look like a lazy ass.
27.And you'll have to deal with people who are making six figures, telling you that a D.C. internship is "priceless" and more valuable than a college education.
28.And somehow after starving, waking up at 6 a.m., and sleeping in a converted project, you are expected to answer every boss's request like:
When you would much rather say:
29.You'll eventually realize that the federal government forcing private businesses pay their interns is a bit hypocritical...
... when they depend on thousands of free laborers each summer.
But keep your chin up!
ALWAYS REMEMBER: Your boss was once an unpaid intern.
You are just on the evolutionary path to D.C. PERSONHOOD!
And if you don't get a job at least you got a cool picture out of it.
(And try not to remember that 2,000 miles away, this is what a PAID internship looks like.)