F.M. Kirby Experiential Learning Stipend Recipient Blogs

Week 1

Hi all! My name is Emma Kennett, I am a rising senior from Burlington, North Carolina. I am a double major in Politics and International Affairs as well as Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies. I will be interning with CrossRoads of Alamance County in Burlington this summer. CrossRoads is a sexual assault response and resource…

Week 1: Excited to Get Started

My name is Matthew Capps and I am from Coats, a small town near Raleigh, North Carolina. I am an Anthropology major about to start my Junior year but before that I will be doing archaeological research this summer with the Wake Forest Anthropology department. This research is on the prehistoric Native American cultures who…

Week 1

I’m Caleb, a rising senior studying Psychology and Biology. I’m from Charlotte and I’ll be doing research with the Silver lab in the Wake Forest Biology department this summer. The planned focus of the research is on chemesthesis in earthworms, which is the detection and response to various irritating and aversive chemical compounds by an…

Oh Sweet Lord it is the Last Week of a Grueling Internship

(Un)Happy Monday! Let me tell you how I really feel about this internship. It has been arduous, simply enduring. I have had an extremely hard time emotionally adjusting to nepotism. My employer’s son is unemployable, yet he has been handed a job by his mother. I understand this, meaning that I can see how a…

Week #10

My internship has turned out to be extremely more gratifying than I could have hoped. Gaining experience in nonprofit office work, event planning, child mentoring, and so many more areas have been very eyeopening to me. I was shown the importance of humility in a nonprofit business setting, consideration of the implications of charitable acts…

Last Day, Walking Down K Street, and Goodbye Washington

I walk to work every morning because the walk to Ayuda’s K Street office isn’t too long, and it gives me time to listen to music, sort through my thoughts, and casually people-watch. On my last day, this walk felt more special than most because I knew that it would be the last time that…

Recap

Hey all, I’ve been at home for two weeks or so now, and have had some time to think about my internship experience. All in all, I had an incredible internship. This was my first real internship, and I couldn’t have had a better boss or been a better organization. Besides just being a good,…

Political Power of Laughter, Georgetown, and Preparing for the Last Week

I cannot believe that next week will be my last week working at Ayuda. This week I spent time beginning to wrap up loose ends and thinking about all of things I am going to miss about my routine in D.C. (one that has become quite comfortable by now). The highlight of my work week…

The Intern Life: Life Lessons & New Friends

I am very grateful for my time interning at Running Start. Although this internship wasn’t what I was expecting according to the given description, I was able to network with incredible women in politics and other interns in the D.C. area. However, there were many obstacles at this internship. There were too many interns in…

And That’s a Wrap

This summer has flown by so quickly, and I actually hate to see my internship come to an end. I thoroughly enjoyed this opportunity, and I want to thank the OPCD for allowing it to happen. As I sit here typing this (one handed might I add, due to a rotator cuff surgery at the…