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Last fall, I accepted a position with The Borgen Project as a political affairs intern. The Borgen Project is a nonprofit that advocates for the United States to get more involved with foreign policy and world hunger. My internship was three months long, and I had the pleasure to work from October to December, which made it all the more fun working right in the middle of election season.

I decided I wanted to pursue political communications toward the end of my junior year and realized I had no political experience. After applying for this position, I interviewed with two managers, and we instantly clicked over our passion for volunteering. A few weeks later, I was hired and started my training.

My internship was entirely remote, and I worked about 12 hours each week. I was given a weekly checklist of tasks and had biweekly progress meetings with my regional boss. One of the things I was responsible for included calling my local congressmen and representatives to inform them about global poverty legislation they should be supporting. I also would keep track of where legislation was in Congress that deals with global poverty. I was able to give some virtual presentations in a few classes and discussed why the United States is key in ending global poverty.

Since we were in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were many things I was not able to do. Usually, political affairs interns get to attend weekly lobbying sessions and with their local state representatives and discuss global poverty legislation with them.

This internship has helped prepare me for grad school, where I will be pursuing my master’s degree in political science. This experience has really opened my eyes that my passion is to work with public policy and advocate for life-changing legislation.

Article about life

Understand Your Mind

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck – The most popular article on the site and the impetus for the worldwide bestselling book by the same name.
• Guide to Personal Values – An in-depth look at how we come to value the things we value and how this affects who we are.
• How to Grow Up – A step-by-step breakdown of the psychology of growth and development. A look at how humans mature and grow through experience and self-questioning.
• The One Rule for Life – What makes an action right or wrong? What makes a person good or bad? Well, there’s a rule for that.

Emotional Intelligence

• Fuck Your Feelings – The best starting place to understand your emotions and your relationship to them.
• The 3 Levels of Self-Awareness – Are you self-aware? Are you sure? Because you’re probably not as self-aware as you think you are.
• Why the Best Things in Life Are Backwards – There’s an odd tendency in our psychology where the more we desire something the harder it is to get.
• The Disease of More – Hedonic treadmills, baselines of happiness, constant dissatisfaction, it’s the disease of more. And we’re all afflicted.

Life Purpose

• 7 Strange Questions that Help You Find Your Life Purpose – The best place to start if you’re questioning what you’re meant to be doing in this world.
• The Most Important Question of Your Life – What is the most important question to be asking yourself? I would argue it’s this.
• Screw Finding Your Passion – Everyone wants to find their passion these days, but what does that really mean?
• The Four Stages of Life – We all tend to move through similar stages in our lives. Here’s a fun look at how time and experience change us.

Healthy Relationships

• Love Is Not Enough – We all worship love in our culture, but the truth is that a healthy relationship needs far more than just love.
• Fuck Yes or No – When it comes to choosing your commitments, if it’s not a Fuck Yes, then it should be a no.
• 6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal – It’s crazy how many fucked up things pass in relationships as “normal.” Don’t be one of these people.
• How to Let Go – A deep and psychological look at what happens when you lose someone or a relationship that’s important to you, with advice on how to cope.

Self-Discipline

• If Self-Discipline Feels Difficult, Then You’re Doing It Wrong – Self-discipline shouldn’t be hard. In fact, it isn’t, when you know how to do it.
• The Attention Diet – We live in an unprecedented time when we are overflowing with information. This article explains how to take care of our attention and focus.
• Five Mindsets that Create Success – Some mindsets are better than others. Here are five that are proven to make you a more productive and successful person.
• How to Be More Productive by Working Less – Productivity isn’t always just a function of the hours you work. Sometimes you need to work smarter, not harder.