Avantages
It was a very encouraging environment; what I didn't know, I was taught or trained in (such as HTML/CSS). The associate I was working for encouraged me to draft statements and such. Other interns were super friendly and team-oriented. There were speakers for interns and I was not handling mail and coffee.
Inconvénients
Another intern in the Development Division was overworked, often worked through lunch for an unpaid internship. This was my first internship, so I was unclear as to the leeway I had in doing certain things, such as contacting government officials to get contact information of certain people for an upcoming report. I like clear, professional lines in the sand between me and my supervisor, especially starting out. My associate and her supervisors were really nice, but I would get mixed signals when we were joking around as if not at work and then suddenly we're back in office mode and I'm being asked for this and that. Was my associate a friend or my superior coworker?