I was able to do one, a curatorial internship for 6 months. And I volunteered at one of the Smithsonians for 4.5 years on weekends in Visitor services. I had to work during school though, so I didn't have a lot of time for other internships (and my program had an annoying rule where a paid internship couldn't be taken…

I'm in the art history/museum field and some major museums actually expect to have people with MA degrees in the field work in unpaid internships for the glory of the experience. The tasks are usually what a Curatorial Assistant (which used to be the starting position in the field for someone with their shiny new MA)…

If I have to pay 3000 dollars on an amazing expensive dream vacation prize (when I don't have 3000 dollars just laying around) it can make a big difference.

Someone else asked my question——so I'll delete mine.

one great thing about college summer break....you can work at a summer camp, get an internship, take classes or a summer travel program through your school or another college, do things that help your resume and get you out of your hometown for the summer. I don't have stepparents, so I can't comment on your main…

I practically mourned the first thing to mourn about this season for more than a week. It was crazy to feel that way, but I really did.

There wasn't really any way to keep the plot twists under cover before the US airing. I wish PBS and the Downton Production company could agree to play series 4 on the UK timeframe. The Internet makes the world much too small to keep information out of an entire country. You can still get Tunnelbear, or any other VPN…

Yep, the mistakes were pretty obvious—- I can't understand why the reporter didn't realize that. Or why the editor didn't catch it and question it? The errors sound like English isn't the person's first language. The race to be first instead of right just drives me crazy about journalism right now.

I've never needed any repairs to my macs in the 18 years that I've owned them, but I don't like the feel of the mac stores, bethesda row was my local one and I bought an imac there, but my last 4 major mac purchases I've just made online at the Apple website. Sounds like apple needs to make a serious investment in…

It took me too long to get this——but that's totally my fault.

I had a professor who had grand mal seizures (sp?) from drinking diet sodas back in the mid 90s. For some reason, he got interviewed on 20/20 or dateline or one of those shows (with other people who were having the same problem) because of it.

Isn't that typical for Royal childhoods, though? Wet nurses, children's hour and nannies and all of that? Although saying that she hated her 9 children is really bold for an historian. Unless he has letters where she clearly wrote that she hated them—

Black on black crime? How does that get in here?

My bestie and I were coworkers, shared an office for 2 years and then had cubes next to each other. I moved 500 miles away for a new job, and see her a couple times a year, but in the 12 years we've been friends we are so connected that I can't imagine not having her as a part of my life. We even had a completely odd…

Infants are involved, they must have physical evidence in order to make these claims. And the photos. This is different than the mcnartin case. And it breaks my heart to write this post. :(

Yep, I have the original teacher's manual for the Electric Company (distributed to teachers the summer before the show's premier and it specifically explains that it is for the older urban child who needs the content of Sesame Street but won't watch sesame street. Kids were supposed to age out of sesame street by 5 or…

I remember working at a summer camp when we used diluted bleach on EVERYTHING, the cabin floors, the bathrooms, the tables in our rec room, just absolutely everything. I can't smell bleach without thinking about that camp. It did keep everything old school clean though. We mopped with bleach, we scrubbed with bleach.…

Great points here. Thanks for writing this. I wouldn't have thought of #1, but it is right on point. By the time my mom was my age (37) she'd been married since 18 and her oldest child was turning 17. I'm unmarried, without kids, and when I think of the way my parents looked to me when I was little, they seemed much…

That's a really good point. I got my star kind of early on, so I forgot about how annoying it was to be one of the grayed out comments. There must be a happy medium between a hiarchy and and open free for all. Eventually Gawker will find it.

That's that new 'better' commenting system. I wish they'd just tweaked the old one. Not sure why burner accounts were thought to be such a great idea. I don't think the new setup has improved things at all, you just have to weed through a lot more spam and trolls than we ever saw here before.