As we’ve said, the quality of your work is the number one factor driving your success over the summer. But that goes hand-in-hand with two other vital factors: your enthusiasm and confidence. We touched on enthusiasm and confidence in Welcome to the Real World, but because they’re so indispensable to building key relationships this summer, we’ll talk about them in this chapter, too.

I. Project Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm should come easily to you this summer, especially early on, when everything you...