Word: internic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Further changes at the MAC include renovating the basketball floor and, starting today, having an intern teach classes and show people how to use the new equipment...
Laura Semerjian '99 is a History concentrator living in Winthrop House. This summer she is an intern in the office of Massachusetts State Senator Cheryl A. Jacques...
...Interns--the status-seeking professionals of the next cohort--are equally prone to this particular brand of prestige-by-association. You notice it at intern parties, which are usually held in tiny Georgetown row houses and feature cheap beer...
Tell a guy from Princeton you're working for your congressional representative and you get, "Oh, cool. That must be so much fun." Introduce yourself as a White House intern, and you'll provoke an involuntary "Wow!" from your conversation partner. Even well-known non-profits and interest groups, like Common Cause or the AFL-CIO, will impress people. But say you're from the Center for Democracy and Technology (an Internet civil-liberties group) or some other small lobbying organization, and you might as well have introduced yourself at a Head of the Charles party as somebody's friend...
...really? What sort of work do they do over there?" the other intern will say, quickly turning the conversation to the best local dance clubs. Snobbish? Definitely. Of course, this view of Washington life is seriously flawed. As a college intern, I'm about as unimportant as they come, no matter where I work. Some of my co-workers are quite influential--a whole crowd of them just got named among the city's top journalists by Washingtonian Magazine--but one couldn't logically make a blanket statement about the whole bureau. Nevertheless, public-relations firms call my Journal voicemail...