The opportunity cost is too great.

The point of an internship is to learn. That's why it's still worth it when you are not getting paid. Everyone can do well in a classroom. You spend 20 years learning how to take a class, if you don't get it by now, McDonald's is always hiring.

So 13 weeks at an internship. Is that enough time to learn anything about the advertising industry? Unfortunately for me, it's proving to be entirely too much time. Why? I literally spend about 76% of my time there doing absolutely nothing. I really don't understand what the problem is. It's not like I don't put EVERY effort into finding someone who has something for me to do. It's to the point where I damn near jump for joy when someone asks me to file a piece of paper. At any rate, that usually only happens about twice a week. People tell you to take initiative and get involved with everything when your doing an internship, but no one ever told me what to do when people just push you away. Or worse, put on their headphones and completely ignore you. While you sit there and wait for them to find an email they want you to go upstairs and print.

They hired too many interns. I definitely could be interning for at least one other department and everyone's work would be done well. Lesson learned, never settle. Explore all of your options, even is you don't think you're qualified. Because once you settle, you realize that you've been qualified to sit and wait for work for at least five years, back when you were "lil Vanessa."