I like your point about feeling like you need to know things as an intern. We have to remind ourselves that we are an “intern” for a reason. So, I googled the definition.

Internship: the position of a student or trainee who works in an organization, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.

We are students. We are trainees. We are helping with (sometimes) redundant work (sometimes) grunt work, sometimes we are handed a job that the paid employee beside us doesn’t have time to complete that day. We do this in exchange for eavesdropping on the daily office happenings and peaking to see what the Account Managers have on their agenda for the day. Somehow there is this expectation we subconsciously create for ourselves that we should know the proper way to execute the tasks we are assigned, but it is okay, no, it is good to ask why, to ask how, and to say no.

Thanks Alexandria.