Little did I think upon starting my internship working for a literary magazine, I would have the opportunity to not only put to practice what I have learned so far, but also to gain so much new knowledge. At the very beginning of the summer, I told my boss that I was very interested in consumer behavior and the psychology behind marketing. Fast forward almost three months now and I feel like I have taken a crash course in evolutionary psychology. Aside from my daily work, I have been assigned several books on human nature to read and comment upon. This for me has become a gem in my internship that I did not see coming at the beginning of the summer. To work for someone that is as focused on teaching you new skills as they are on their regular work, has truly turned out to be an added boon in my internship. I always imagined an internship to be a summer spent working on mundane tasks that you are assigned more so that you have something to do, rather than to produce anything meaningful. But how wrong was I. It is true that for a business student my internship is a little out of the ordinary. Though I am not working for well known financial giants or accounting firms, there is truly something unique in working with a small enterprise. These things I have called the hidden gems of my summer’s work. One would be surprised at the depth of knowledge writers have about human psychology. They of course spend years learning how to write about it in their pieces. Yet for me to just be around such knowledge, has helped me as a marketing major to gain insight into worlds I never would have imagined. I have learned that sometimes the knowledge you are looking for lurks in the corners that you pass over every day, not stopping long enough to realize that it is sometimes so close. Bringing this all full circle, I have realized that even though my internship was off the beaten path for a typical business student, it was exactly where I needed to take my next step. In it I have gained more than I could have expected, making the whole experience one to treasure.