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Show Page II Monday, Aus. 27, 2007 Internship, my eye A little more than a year ago, I walked in the doors that would lead me to not only my summer internship but a bright, shining future in the newspaper world. I strolled into the front office, holes ripped in each knee of my jeans, and all I saw was purple. After meeting the crazy sports writer Aldon, who was obsessed with his most recent story on midget wrestling, I knew from that moment on that this would not only be an internship, it was going to be an adventure I would never forget. In the world of internships, it seems you either get a good one or you don't. You're either making coffee, or you're not. Your boss actually talks to you or never learns your name. You actually learn something or you come back to school wishing you hadn't wasted those beautiful warm months in an office. Several of you have probably recently returned from exotic internships in New York or Washington, D.C. I realize my internship in little Roosevelt, Utah, at The Uintah Basin Standard may never sound as exciting as yours, but believe me when I tell you I was a lucky one. I had a good internship, surrounded by purple walls and all. I had to laugh all the time as the following really did happen during the summer months I spent writing stories about Duchesne and Uintah counties. An internship can be one of the most valuable experiences during college, and if any of you happen to complete one within the next few years, namely a newspaper internship, you'll know you had a good one if: * During your interview to get the job, you editor informs you that big news in the area would be if the city banned candy from the parades. * Before you move out to work, this same editor leaves a message on your cell phone stating, "Newsflash!! You're apartment just got an oven!" • When you eventually see this oven, you notice it's in the same room as the laundry and sewing machines. Talk about using space to the fullest. • You don't have1 cable, let alone a DVD player, so you make a 30-minute trip to the library every two weeks where you and your roommate check out VHS movies, not books. • You work with a sports writer that once wrote a column entitled, "Me and My Colon." • When you decide to go camping for the weekend, your boss asks you, "Isn't living here enough?" • You become friends with a local who works at McDonald's and has two T-shirts - one that says, "I love Mormon girls" and the. other that says, "Mormon girls love me." He later competes in a pageant where he dances like Elvis. • You live in a town that has exactly three stop lights, four theater screens (including the drive-in) and barbecues almost every week. • You get to attend court, and when the lawyer asks a frizzy-haired, middle-aged woman why she violated her parole by consuming alcohol, she tells him it's because she's allergic to bees. • There is a restaurant close by where the owner thinks he's a prophet and next door is another restaurant that serves not only Chinese, but Mexican and American food as well. • Your editor is happy when you take the story about the library because she doesn't have enough time and admits the sports writer scares people. • You cover about every pageant and interview every rodeo queen in the county. • One of your goals for the summer is to take a picture with every dinosaur in Vernal. • You get to meet celebrities. They may be celebrities from an '80s country band who never grew out of sporting mullets, but still. • Your editor leaves in the middle of the day every once in a while to go swimming. You do the same. • The staff takes you on a river trip where you fall out of your raft and nearly drown. • Thirty minutes away there is a water slide that's open from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. on weekends. People your age race each other to the top because it's about the most exciting thing they've done all summer. That pool later shuts down for violating health code. Inspectors find Band-Aids in the drains. So maybe I haven't quite made it to my bright, shining future in the newspaper world. Then again, I graduate in four months and then ... who knows. Maybe I'll be rubbing shoulders again with the midget-obsessed sports writer. Oh man. MEXICAN FOOD me. 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