Internship hours have a way of vanishing. You work a shift, scribble a few lines in a notebook, and three weeks later you cannot remember whether you were at 60 hours or 90, and the form your program asks for is due on Friday morning.
This log is the notebook part, minus the guessing. Set the number your program requires, add each session with a date, the hours you put in, and a short description, and it totals everything and shows a progress bar against the requirement. The default is 120 hours, which is a common minimum, but type over it with whatever your handbook says.
Nothing here is stored anywhere, so the log lives exactly as long as the page does. Write the total down when you are finished, and keep a second copy somewhere you will actually open next semester.
Track your internship hours toward program requirements. Log sessions and see your progress.
How it works
Fill in the date, the hours, and a description, then press Add Session. The session drops into a table underneath in the order you added it, with the three columns side by side so you can read it back like a timesheet. Hours move in half-hour steps, so 3.5 is fine and 3.2 will not do what you expect. Press Calculate and you get four numbers: total hours logged, required hours, hours remaining, and progress as a percentage, with a bar underneath so you can see the shape of it rather than just read it.
The required hours field is editable. If your program asks for 500, type 500 before you calculate, because the percentage is always measured against whatever is sitting in that box. Reset empties the list and clears the result, which is what you want at the start of a new placement instead of last summer’s sessions still hanging around.
A worked example
Say your placement runs to 120 hours. In the first week you log four hours of shadowing on the 2nd, six hours of data entry on the 4th, and 3.5 hours in a team meeting on the 6th. That is 13.5 hours in total, 106.5 remaining, and 11.3% on the bar. Low, but real, and a lot better than a vague feeling that you have barely started.
A month in you are at 30.5 across five sessions, so 89.5 to go and 25.4%. Then a heavy week of four eight-hour days lands on top and takes you to 62.5, which crosses the halfway point at 52.1% with 57.5 hours still ahead. Push it to 118.5 and the bar reads 98.8% with one and a half hours left, and that last hour and a half is usually the half day nobody bothers logging because it felt too small to count. Log it anyway. Cross 120 and the percentage stops at 100 even if you keep adding sessions.
One bit of arithmetic worth knowing: the percentage is capped, the total is not. Put in 130 hours against a 120 requirement and you get 130.0 total sitting next to 100.0% progress, which is the honest way round. Overachieving hours still matter for some programs, so keep the total rather than trimming it to fit the bar.
Common mistakes and honest caveats
The usual mistake is logging once a week from memory. Six sessions reconstructed on a Sunday night are approximations, and approximations hold up right until your supervisor asks which dates they fell on. Logging the same evening takes under a minute and the date field is sitting right there.
Second: neither the date nor the description is checked. Nothing stops you adding a session for a date in the future or writing “whatever” in the box. The tool totals what you hand it. If your program verifies hours against timesheets or a supervisor’s signature, this number is your copy of the truth, not the official one, and when the two disagree the official one wins.
Another quiet limit is the half-hour step. If your timesheet runs in quarter hours you will round, and rounding the same direction every week is fine while rounding whichever way feels easy is how a 7.5 becomes an 8. Keep a rough note of the quarters and enter the weekly total if precision matters.
Other tools
If you are turning time into hours rather than the other way round, the lecture minutes hours calculator converts a class schedule into contact hours, the overtime hours tool works out premium pay from a shift, and the outdoor time tracker counts hours outside if your program wants evidence of field work.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as an internship hour?
That depends on your program, so your handbook is the answer and not this page. Usually it covers supervised work and related training, and unpaid volunteering usually does not count unless your program says otherwise in writing.
Can I log sessions from the past?
Yes, any date works. The list keeps the order you added entries in rather than sorting by date, so add them roughly in sequence if you want the table to read like a timeline.
Why does my progress stop at 100%?
The percentage is capped so the bar never runs off the screen, but the total keeps climbing. Both numbers appear in the result, so you can still see 130 hours sitting against a 120 requirement.
What happens if I refresh the page?
The list clears. Nothing is held between visits, so jot the total down after each session or keep a duplicate in a notes app you actually open.
Does the tool round my hours?
It sums what you entered and prints the total to one decimal place. The input only accepts half-hour steps, so the rounding decision happens when you type the number, not when it calculates.