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What I've Actually Learned at my Internship
1) Legislative sessions are rather boring and take a very very long time to begin. Legislative recesses are ideal times to take naps, if you have the wonderful skill of waking up at the correct time.
2) Traffic sucks, especially at the end of the workday. (Yeah, I know it's obvious, but so true.)
3) I never, ever want to have a job that involves a lot of inputting data into databases. It's terribly boring and gives you carpel tunnel syndrome. Did I mention it's boring? I would almost rather go into retail (shudders).
4) Even though it's unpaid, my internship still beats working retail. (Crosses fingers about getting credit)
5) Drinking cold water keeps me awake at morning meetings. And it's good for you, to boot.
6) I'm proud of the fact that we get 100% of our energy from wind power and use 100% post-consumer recycled paper with soy ink. I'm such a tree-hugger.
7) Just because everyone else is parked on one side of the street does not mean you should park there. It just means that everyone else is as clueless as you are.
8) City parking is very expensive. Especially when you get a ticket.
9) Never leave your CDs on your seat in the city. Some druggie might come by, break your window and make off with them, even in broad daylight. (This actually happened to someone parked right outside of our office.)
10) Always check the paper in the copier and the printer before printing. More then once, I've printed out a large number of pages before realizing they were on letterhead when I wanted them on plain paper. Or vice versa.
11) Even if you've checked whatever you're printing 10 times over, you will find a typo after printing at least 30 copies of it.
12) Interns are sometimes invited along to meetings with state Assemblymen and Senators, so it's important to look decent.
13) I learned what lobbyists actually do. It involves a lot of letter writing and printing memos. It's a good thing we use 100% recycled paper, as we use a whole lot of it.
14) I'm willing (and sometimes even happy) to do boring work for free if I know it's for a good cause.
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