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Washington was to be my residence for most of the summer, but prior to heading down to D.C. for my internship, I had five days in New York— just long enough to squeeze in three shows. I checked up on RENT for the fourth time and, after celebrating its fifth anniversary, it’s still going strong. Despite a performing cast filled with understudies for the performance I saw, energy was high on stage and in the audience...
...know that when Levy's internship at the Federal Bureau of Prisons ended, she was disappointed, and told her mother as much. Fascinated by law enforcement since high school, Levy had hoped the temporary work, a requirement for her master's degree in public administration, might lead to a job at the FBI. Instead, Levy was unceremoniously relieved of her duties in April when it was revealed she had completed her coursework more than three months earlier. Saddened but certainly not distraught by this turn of events, according to her family, Levy planned to return to Modesto in time...
...desk. “Are you a student?” she asked, searching for a reason why anyone who could see would be requesting such a volume. Frankly, I hadn’t realized that the “book” I had to read for my internship with Art Education for the Blind would consist of a series of audio tapes and a spiral bound notebook of tactile drawings. Somehow, I had assumed that “Art History Through Touch and Sound” would be a practical guide to finding resources, not the resource itself...
...visit to the library was merely an introduction to my internship; I spent the rest of the summer interviewing people who were blind and writing about their experiences. But as much as I learned from those people, nothing jarred me quite as much as my library visit did. I’m a Harvard student, I don’t like to admit that I cannot understand something. It was during those three hours that I began to understand that blindness is not trying to reconstruct the visual world, but of learning non-visual ways to experience the world...
...this summer gave me enough material for a dozen columns and action-packed teasers for all of them. It was a rare summer. It was full of substance—a 9-week Congressional internship working 9-hour days, and sometime 15-hour ones. It was full of firsts and exciting people and places...