Apprenticeship has been around since the Middle Ages, but the first modern interns were medical students in the late 19th century. By the 1970s, professionals in business and engineering started to see internships as a way to bridge academic theory and practice; in the ’90s, as criticism of academic study without direct practical applications pressed liberal arts disciplines to justify themselves, more professional fields started offering internships. Internships are a crucial step into the job market, but not for the reasons most people might expect. Internships purport to school mostly young people on the skills they’ll need for specific industries. Again and again, though, former interns say the true lesson is more basic: This is how you act—or don’t act—at a job. Still, whether an internship has been a positive or negative experience, no one forgets it. It’s formative. “You can have a chance engagement with someone you don’t know well that turns into a transformational opportunity,” says Ben Colman, who got a lucky break during his summer internship at Google in 2012. Read more from Charley Locke
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