Interning on Wall Street may be lucrative, but it is grueling work. The competition is stiff, the hours, are long, and frankly, it's rather thankless.
For all those reasons, the Wall Street internship is very easy to screw up. And you do want your offer, don't you? Yes you do.
So Business Insider is here to help. We asked our sources who have not only been interns, but also had their own interns share their thoughts on what makes a terrible Wall Street summer.
Consider this a "To NOT do list."
You ducked out early.
If you want to be an analyst, you've got to put up with the hours. They're technically the lowest rung on the totem pole — until the interns show up, that is — so don't complain about 6 day work weeks or 14 hour days. There's no getting out of them anyway.
You showed up drunk.
Drinking on weeknights may be a given in college, it may even be a given on Wall Street, but here's the difference — on Wall Street you have to come into work the next day like it never happened. It's that simple.
You thought you were too good for certain tasks.
As an intern, you're going to get asked to do a lot of boring stuff no matter who you are or where you come from. The new rule is: You're not above any task. Regardless of what you're doing, do it without complaint and as well as possible.
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