This summer, I have the privilege (see: I applied and completely earned my position) of having an internship in Washington D.C., at the United States Senate Library. It's a little bit surreal, that I'm a paid government employee. I have a badge and everything. It's such a cool feeling to walk past tourists with their little paper passes clipped on, or a Capitol sticker stuck to the front of their shirts. Even though I'm just a lowly library intern, it still makes me feel important.
My job in and of itself isn't very important; there are 5 library interns, and we just do general office work. I'm pretty sure that the projects that we work on are things that the librarians would have to do themselves if we weren't here though, so it's kind of gratifying to know that what we're doing actually sort of matters. We're not just shredding paperwork or getting coffee. The work that we're doing would be done anyway, by other real government employees, not just interns. I'm sort of making a difference, small as it is, even if it is just to lessen someone else's work load.
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