Tweet By JOE GRIMM If you have enough talent, connections or luck to get more than one offer at the same time, you’ll have to choose. During internship-offer season, the best and luckiest can get offers within hours of each other. Some offers arrive just hours after candidates commit to someone else. For most, one
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With internships, there is very little room for negotiation. Because an internship is one of your first opportunities to handle a job offer, though, it is a first chance to start learning how to negotiate.

Few editors are as concerned about where interns will stay as the interns are. That just makes sense. One reason is self-interest. The other is that, while the intern has no idea where he or she will stay, the editors know that all of last year’s interns stayed somewhere and things will work out. So, the help you get will not come as rapidly or as extensively as you might like.

One key to a successful internship is to have clear, measurable and reasonable goals before you go in. Find out what those would look like and make some for yourself.

In the time between when you accept the offer and when you arrive, become an avid student of the newspaper. Do your reporting. Read the paper regularly—online and on paper.