Through my internship, I found myself part of an ecological mandala, each tree akin to a grain of colored sand.
During my senior year and final semester of college, I had the opportunity to intern in Washington D.C. Towards the end of my internship, I found myself without a job lined up, so I did what a lot of people do and began submitting job applications.
Some part of that is due to my own choices to work hard, pursue opportunities, apply for internships and challenge myself academically.
I graduate next year, and I find myself sifting through internship in politics/IR etc as I know my degree won't set me apart from the crowd.
"I went to do an internship at Arsenal and asked myself what I actually learnt from [Arsène] Wenger afterwards," he confided.
Determined to start building my résumé, I managed, by pulling every string I could find, to talk myself into an internship at a prestigious literary magazine, right after my freshman year.
Around the same time, I was preparing myself for an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, by studying the collection and Peggy's life.
As a freshman, I found myself in an internship with the Idaho State Sports Information office, one usually reserved for upperclassman and graduate students.
At university, in a bid to rescue a failing politics course while also avoiding the study of Marxist theory at all costs, I miraculously blagged myself a parliamentary internship.
I, like many others, could not have supported myself through an unpaid internship and I know I wouldn't be writing this today if it wasn't for that basic wage.
