(sort-of) got hired for an internship

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<p>right before the recent holidays, i was networking with a Mech.E who provides facilities project management for commercial sites. he "told" me that i am pretty much hired for a paid-internship; however, its been at least two weeks since the beginning of the discussion. he did tell me how many hours of work per week that is expected, and requested me to provide the school schedule for the upcoming quarter. it has been very informal between us, communicating in-person, not through email: he did not ask me for a resume (yet), and assured me he will work things out for me; from what i had understand, and tried to respect, is that things wont happen immediately, given the holdiay schedule. im somewhat freaking out about this arrangement falling through, plainly. i even brought this up with him, and he recognizes that he has been lagging on the details to get me started.</p>

<p>my backup plan was to do undergrad research for two quarters (originally arranged this before the internship offer), and i have yet to email my professor. im sure she will understand how important it is for me to secure the internship anyhow.</p>

<p>at any rate, i gave the Mech.E a business card with my contact information. i will see if i can coordinate things further this weekend. i would like to know if theres something im missing in communicating; i want to show how much i really need this internship, without appearing desperate in hounding the guy for some progress. should i just wait it out? should i take the initiative? am i just paranoid about how long this is taking, and just accept the fact that its just the holidays?</p>

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<p>When does your quarter and the research with your professor start? You need an answer from him before that, which isn’t unreasonable. I would give it a couple days since we’re just barely out of the holidays, then contact him just asking for a status update. Absolutely no shame in that, they’re busy people that need to plan ahead too.</p>

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<p>If you have his email address, send a concise but comprehensive email attaching your resume and schedule and any other information he might need. In the body of the email thank him and ask your few big picture questions. Format the message so your questions are easy to spot visually. Send the email with a read-receipt request so you know when he has opened it. If you don’t hear back in a day or so, you can follow up with a short call or voice message. In all your communications, be respectful of his time and thankful for the opportunity.</p>