Posted by
Ryan S. on Thursday, August 09, 2007 4:17:08 PM
Today is my last day as a Townhall Intern. Three months is such a short time, but I certainly enjoyed my experience here immensely.
Interning here provided me the opportunity to put my editorial skill into practice and to see how a website like Townhall operates on a day to day basis. I also was able to get paid for a bunch of stuff I could probably get tricked into doing for free, so that’s always good.
The office atmosphere here is warm and inviting, and not once did anyone ask me to make them coffee (someone once asked me how the coffee machine worked, and another time someone stole the coffee I had made, but that’s neither here nor there). Amanda did ask me to cover a press conference on the Hill once (I was three feet away from Ted “Jabba” Kennedy, and lived to tell about it!) and I helped Matt out with some stuff on the blog. I can really say I felt like part of the team here, and not “just an intern,” a condition which befalls too many of my underpaid summer brethren in this city.
This will most likely be the last post for me at this blog, but I can’t say that for sure. If you’re still curious as to what I’m blogging about, I’ll be writing Jokers to the Right (now going into it’s 4th year).
I’d like to conclude this farewell “speech” by thanking Chuck, Jonathan, Katie, Mary Katharine, Josue, Matt, Amanda, Hanlon, Matt the video guy (I hardly knew ye), and my fellow interns Kelley, Amber, and Kristen. And of course, Collin.
Now I’m headed back to the University of Delaware to see if they’ll let me graduate at the end of this year.
The sign I had on the door to my "office" all summer: