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UPDATE: Wow, huge apologies for directing anyone to this site, as an alert tipster points out that much of it appears to be blatantly plagiarized from The Phat Phree's Look at My Striped Shirt!. We weren't familiar with that particular work, but you should definitely not count on the DC Summer Interns blog for anything good after all, based on this evidence.
They've only got two posts up (including one that simply links back to a post of DCist's from last year), but we're keeping our fingers crossed for good things out of new local blog entry DC Summer Interns (yeah, no longer keeping our fingers crossed, thanks to the gross plagiarism indicated above). The web site claims to be taking aim at all the fresh-faced, clueless college students arriving in the District daily for stints making copies and answering phones at some of this country's most prestigious think tanks and congressional offices. Here's a taste:
I will treat the cab driver with contempt and make sure that he knows that I am superior to him in life! I will tell him to "Take it easy on the brakes, Champ!"I will talk to people I don't know about my job tonight! They will all know that I am an important man, and that the Congressman I intern for is the most important Congressman on the Hill! I will call female bartenders "Babe" and male bartenders "Chief!"The author(s) could stand to cool it with the exclamation points, and the concept will hopefully be strengthened with actual overheards and reports from the field, but it's a solid start. They're also taking submissions at dcsummerinterns@gmail.com.
Hopefully it'll last a little longer than last summer's brilliant but all-too-brief m4intern.
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Oh, the potential! It's obvious that interns aren't the target demographic, just the target. I'm hoping that the authors - who are apparently too spineless to even list a first name - are capable of follow-through. I definitely want to see those intern badges all around town.
This is a ripoff of Look at my Striped Shirt!
Fact checker award! This explains why there aren't any first names!
There's always the jerk who thinks s/he's hot sh-t for interning for Senator so-and-so, but for every one like that, there are ten who are just people trying to get a start in a world that's very difficult to get started in. That example of snarkitude posted above sounds as juvenile as anything people attribute to interns.
Welcome to Washington. First order of business: grow a thicker skin.
Sigh... I miss m4intern. What happened there? Any chance for a revival?
As a nonpretentious Hill intern, I have to say I'm very disappointed at the way DCInterns has turned out. I also will never understand why people like to advertise that red intern badge - I will admit I was dorkily excited to get mine, but come on, who wants to show off the fact that they're so cool, they work for free?