The Ultimate Internship Photo Contest: Album 4 — Sir Mix-A-Lot and Having Fun

The office world offers abrupt differences from college life.  Longer hours, new and challenging assignments, and interacting with co-workers who come from a range of different ages, backgrounds and life interests (just to name a few).  Dealing with these differences can make work difficult and stressful, but interns also discover that these differences are a big part of what makes the professional world rich, exciting, and incredibly fun. Whether meeting Sir Mix-A-Lot to help launch a new marketing campaign, dressing up as an owl mascot to bring your company brand to your community, or going bowling to bond with your co-workers — a number of photo contest entrants found these fun diversions to be some of the most long lasting memories of their internship experiences.

Check out more Ultimate Photo Contest entries in Albums 1, 2 and 3!

What I Never Learned in Marketing 101
By Mikey Tom,”Giant Thinkwell”

This picture is from my first internship with local Seattle gaming startup Giant Thinkwell. I worked with them for 3 weeks helping them set up for the launch of their newest game. The product was a facebook game featuring a certain music celebrity. Here’s a hint, he’s a really big fan of women with large gluteus maximus’s. Yes it was Sir Mix-a-Lot himself. And yes he’s still just as big of a fan of big butts as he was in the 90’s. Fun and games aside, the internship was an amazing experience where I was able to learn a lot about marketing and startups in general. I utilized both guerilla marketing tactics along with mainstream ones. It also led to my next and current internship at Lighter Capital, a new investment firm here in Seattle started by Andy Sack that focuses on revenue based financing.

A Check-Off My Bucket List!
By Huy Lam, “HootSuite”