Tessa Shing: Life as a Disney College Program Student



When you first arrive you will get extremely excited and is ready to go to work and meet a lot of people! The guests are nice and you are all happy and preppy and thinking that this is the most magical place and the best experience ever! Every night you go on the party bus, every day before or after work you’ll go out with your friends.  But as time goes by your body will soon be crashing after long ridiculous hours and the latest hours ever and of course, the many nights of going on the party bus.  


Half way through your program you would complain that it’s too hard and that you want to go home. Everyday you’ll drag yourself to go to work and put on a fake smile on your face and behind that smile you are complaining to yourself about how stupid it is. You barely see you friends anymore; the only people you see are the cast members that you work with and guests with the most ridiculous and repetitive questions. 

Two more months goes by and you will realize how fast time is flying by and that you only have one more month to do everything that you wanted to do before you have to leave and fly back home. The last few weeks you will start hanging with all your friends and make new friendship as well and you realized that you are not ready to leave yet.

The last week of the program you start going on the party bus every night again because you know you will never be able to go ever again, unless you do this program again, and of course you are trying to fit six months of your life into suitcases or shipping packages. The very last day you will have all your friends come over to your place and that is when all the tears fall and this is time where you say goodbye. The hardest part of the program is saying bye to everyone that you’ve met from all over the world.


In a nutshell, this is how I see the Disney internship program to be like. Everyone’s experience will be different. People has told me they’ve done this program three times and each time is different because of the different people they meet and the different roles that they do.

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