When Ms. Shidler, a daughter of Linda and Joseph Shidler of Agoura Hills, Calif., moved away in 1998 to spend an internship year in Philadelphia, Mr. Sampson proposed on the steps of the Capitol.
While many of their peers may spend their internships doing office work at various companies, the PlumWillow interns are getting a taste of the challenges of entrepreneurship.
Erika Valdez has spent her internship with me talking to mompreneurs, unearthing what motivates women entrepreneurs and collecting stories of inspiring journeys.
The final year is spent in internships and projects.
The Times found that the $372,000 spent on internships in 2008, for example, was dwarfed by the $3.9 million the caucus spent on its annual black-tie dinner festival and related galas.
This system would more resemble the training of physicians, who must spend years in internships and residencies with relatively low compensation and grueling hours before they are considered sufficiently competent to practice on their own at much higher levels of income.
"Some of my friends can't take these internships and spend a summer without making any money because they have to help pay for their own tuition or help their families with finances," she said.
So I spent my summer internship lurking in the hall near the file cabinet.
The concluding 9 months are spent doing an internship in a Japanese company.
She spent the required internship at a French nongovernmental organization, assessing the environmental, health, and social risks associated with arsenic contamination in Mali, which is caused by gold mining.
An eye-opening opportunity presented itself in 1992 when, toward the end of my graduate training, I spent a summer internship at Genentech Inc. as part of an NIH-sponsored, institutional biotechnology training program administered by Washington State University, Pullman.
