Volume 4, Issue 1
Fall 2016
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Summer Success by Brittany Williams (POL /PA ’17) Over the summer, I had the honor of being one of the students selected to intern for a congress member in Washington D.C. for a week long adventure. While my stay in the Capital may have been short, I learned more than I thought possible. I was placed with Senator Whitehouse'a office, a group of incredibly hard workers who welcomed me with open arms. My first day in the office, I was sent on quite the adventure, a scavenger hunt throughout the entire Capital grounds. I came across numerous helpful people who did anything they could to help me find the items on my list. This scavenger hunt
proved to be exceptionally helpful later on, when I was asked to deliver many important documents Debate Watch a throughout the Success week around On Wednesday, October the Capitol grounds. At the 19, the Political Science end of my time Club, College Democrats, at the Senator's and Pi Sigma Alpha cooffice, Senator sponsored a Debate Whitehouse Watch in room 307 of the took the time to have a meeting Student Union. with me. After Approximately 40 my internship, I students and faculty got was offered an together to watch the final opportunity to presidential debate of the intern in the local office for 2016 election season. the Senator, an Attendees played election offer I happily trivia for a chance to win accepted. gift cards, ate pizza and cookies, received Debate Watch t-shirts, and laughed a lot. 1