Tyler Yoder
MBA’19
Year 1 is in the books and your mind has finally decompressed during your brief summer break. You said your goodbyes to classmates-now some of your closest friends-and finally re-enter the world of the employed, at least for the summer. By this point, you’re used to being flung into the unknown. How different could a new internship really be?
I walked through the doors for Day 1 at 3M and felt a healthy balance of confidence and anxiety. I had binders full of frameworks and several consulting projects under my belt. I had also fallen on my face several times-oh, that Effective Communication class-and knew that I still had a long way to go.
If the focus of MBA classes is equipping, the internship is the proving ground where the rubber meets the road. No more case studies. No more templates or projects nicely queued up. This is the real world with ambiguous projects and real opportunities to serve your clients and business partners.
One month into my internship, I decided to take a step back and ask myself, “If you could talk to your pre-internship self, what advice would you give?”
Here is my answer—my Top 5 by Internship Week 5. (more…)