By Cassandra Carroll
Spring 2014
Our class outside the US Capitol.
In my first week as an intern on Capitol Hill I was asked the same sequence of questions approximately 40 times, and my first week was only two days long. People would start by asking if I was a student, when I replied yes, they wanted to know where, when I told them, they asked what I was studying. As soon as the words public relations were out of my mouth the confusion would cross their face. The next question was almost always some variety of “what are you doing here?”
No, I do not have a press specific internship. I answer phones, I give tours, I go to briefings, I do what every other intern on the hill does. The difference is that the political science major taking notes on America’s Future in Asia is at that moment doing something relevant to his major. It’s a clearly made connection.
