Internships

So this is the first real day of work during the rodeo. So far today I have sat in a mobile home all morning and all afternoon. My main task is to check in all media personell that come onto the grounds and help send them on thier way. As I sit here, the other intern Kate is going around taking the media where they need to go and has been in and out of meetings all day. I sit here and think about how much seniority sucks when you are on the raw end of things. Don't get me wrong, she has been here since January so she knows a lot more than I do when it comes to where people need to be and when they need to be there. The only thing is how am I going to learn if I do not get to at some point get to go out and do this all on my own, or at least get to go see it for myself so I can learn. I love this opportunity I just feel kind of useless. I feel, although it is not true, that I am of less value to everyone because I have been here less than everyone else and I feel thatg I have a lot to make up for. I do not know what to do other than the basic esesntials that has been assigned to me today. I want to be the one who knows how to takethe media to where they need to go and do all that stuff. I want to be useful and helpful not just the dummy who sits in the office while no one comes in. Today we have had 4 appointments and the last one is not until 7 pm tonight so what is the point of being here while there is nothing to do. I am supposed to be plugging in the stock draw for extreme bulls tomorrow but we can not get the main server out in the media office so I have nothing to do. I feel like I am somehow a failure becasue there has been nothing productive and useful for me to do this whole day. Oh wait I sent an e-mail to a contact at the radio station and that has been about it. Until we can figure out how to get the files I need working functioning out here there is no way that sitting here I can of any use to anyone. I hate feeling as if there is nothing better for me to do than sit down. I am the kind of person who needs to be doing something and needs to be productive. I feel that when I am told to sit here and essentailly do nothing I feel like there is something that I have done in the past here that has caused them to not want to let me do anything. I just hope that by the time the rodeo begins tomorrow I will be able to be productive. I have no issue at all with sitting in the media home and checking in the media, because that is what I planned on doing but that can only take up so much of ones time before it gets to the point of insanity. So as I sign off here to try and find another task to you I want to leave with this thought: If internships are about preparing you for the future in a field, how is it beneficial to have someone sitting around in an office all day blogging about how bored they are?