12 Breaks You'll Take Every Day At Your Summer Internship

Interning: your new summer vacation destination. Pretend to file something and take a break with KITKAT...then get back to gaining all that experience or whatever.

1. The Coffee Break

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OK, this isn't your coffee break, technically, because you're hitting the dank, humid, sweltering streets to grab coffee for four creative directors and a junior art director (Who does she think she is?). But you take the long way to the coffee shop and listen to that podcast you love.

2. The Copy Break

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Your boss asks you to make copies of a LOT of stuff and warns you that it might take a few hours. You groan and feign disappointment. In reality, you will use this time to stare into space and imagine your future in publishing.

3. The Dry Cleaning Break

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You have to grab the marketing director's dry cleaning. Since it's not like she needs it NOW, you sit at a park and read 10 pages of your sizzling summer novel. Then you grab the dry cleaning.

4. The Music Break

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You stare at your computer screen blankly, occasionally moving your fingers around on the keyboard, and listen to that sweet, sweet therapeutic playlist of yours.

5. The "Attempting to Socialize" Break

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It's hard to converse with the full-time employees seeing as you can read their minds ("Lowly intern, you are an indentured servant, and it took years for me to forget what it felt like to be you, but I have forgotten, and I have no compassion for you.") but you do it anyway.

6. The "Bathroom" Break

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These aren't legit bathroom breaks where you, like, do your business — these are breaks you take, phone stealthily in hand, where you sit in a stall just scrolling through nonsense as you try to mentally escape the reality of your life at 3 p.m.

7. The Break From Asking People If They Need Any Help

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It's the internship catch-22: You're there to learn and help, but when there's nothing to learn and no one to help all day, you're just there to kind of freak out as you do your own thing. This is a surprisingly stressful break.

8. The Ninja Nap Break

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Possible places to take a discrete but energizing nap: a broom closet; a bathroom stall; under the desk of the HR lady after you break down in tears.

9. The Scream Break

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You reserve a conference room for five minutes (just five minutes!) and bring your special "scream pillow" in with you. You scream into said scream pillow. And then you go back out there with your game face and do the damn thing.

10. The "Walk by the Hottie's Desk" Break

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You know it's the scenic route, and you know your boss is waiting for those copies, but you consider it an emotional reprieve to maybe make eye contact with the most beautiful person in the office. The break you take after it happens is a whole other story.

11. The Laugh Break

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When things get stressful, a laugh attack is far better than a panic attack. These are the breaks you take to crack up at ridiculously stupid internet junk with one of the younger employees.

12. The Break to Contemplate Your Life Choices

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These breaks have no specific location and can very well happen as you're filing, transcribing, or tagging; they are where you kind of zone out, look at what you're doing right now, and have a lot of unnecessary existential thoughts. It's often followed by the strong urge to call your mom.