Intern Blog Postings

Giavanna Jadick

There is Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Giavanna Jadick

In the Twilight Zone where policy interns thrive, the local currency is free Capitol Host sandwiches and black coffee. Didn’t RSVP? No worries! The event sponsors welcome you anyways (probably).

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Suckers, Nobels, and the Sweep of History

Monday, July 22, 2019

Jeremiah O'Mahony

The editor wanted an excel sheet with every Nobel Prize winner’s name, their seminal paper, and the year that paper was published. “This looks like a job for an intern,” he chuckled.

I laughed along with the editor’s joke, wondering what poor sucker would get that job. Then I noticed everyone’s eyes on me. Hey, I thought. I’m an intern. A beat, and then: I’m the sucker.

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Week 8: Luxurious Homelessness

Monday, July 22, 2019

Sariah Mevs Phipps

So on Monday I became homeless….not really but I did have to work in the kitchen. The 6th floor had become over crowded with people, so I had to work elsewhere. But it really isn’t bad at all!

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Nolan Roth

"The Classic Unsolved Problem of the Student"

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Nolan Roth

Intern’s Blog

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Week Eight: Melting

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Samantha Staskiewicz

I'm not ready to leave DC.

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Week 8: I'm sweating

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Catherine Ryan

The blurbs are edited, formatted, and under edits again! Because editing is important! The photos are all collected! They are emailed off to Melonnie! I get really excited and then I remember I still have the third case to research and design!

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Joseph Tibbs

Week Eight: Story Time

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Joseph Tibbs

No puns this week? How novel.

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Week 8: The Hunt for Red Zero

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Terance Schuh

Ah zero, such a unique number. The perfect balance between positive and negative. What exactly is it though? What does it mean to have zero of something? Does it exist in nature? If we could divide by zero, then we could prove 1 = 2 (an exercise left to the reader).

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Nicholas Stubblefield

Politics: Pure and Unadulterated

Friday, July 19, 2019

Nicholas Stubblefield

“They’re very sexy politics.” I’m quoting my hometown mayor here, Rebecca Casper (already enjoying her second appearance in this blog series).

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Week 7: Guess I’m a library geek now

Friday, July 19, 2019

Catherine Ryan

Welp, it's Friday of week 8 and I still haven’t posted about week 7. Not that I didn’t try it was just a very big week. We visited Capitol Hill and NASA last week. What more could a science policy nerd like myself love more?

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