Good afternoon or morning everyone!
The new semester has begun. Technically not my last semester of school, but the last semester of normal classes for me. I am enrolled in International Political Economy as my core class, EU Foreign Security and Defense Policy, and Politics of European Governance this term. So far the classes are very interesting, although at this point IPE looks to be a relative copy (only more difficult obviously) of the class I took of the same title as an undergraduate at K-State. There is going to once again be an overload of work this semester, but hopefully Fall prepared me for it. The big negative is that I was hoping to travel some this semester, but it looks as though I won't be able to do very much (although I am making sure to leave time to go places with Mike and my mom when they come in April; I'd be extremely sad if I didn't get to go to the Benelux countries).
The bigger news though is that I have gotten my grades back from first semester. University College Dublin allows graduate students that get high enough grades to submit to do an internship in place of writing their dissertation and I have made the grades to do this. There are a few things I have to take care of first before I'm fully permitted but those are largely clerical and so I've begun to look at places to work. I won't apply until I'm accepted into the internship option (February 16th, I believe), but here is a list of where I'm going to be putting in applications at the moment (not listed in any particular order):
The Carter Center (Atlanta, Georgia)
Center for Strategic & International Studies [CSIS] (Washington, D.C.)
Council on Foreign Relations [CFR] (Washington, D.C. or New York City)
United Nations Office at Vienna [UNOV]/United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime [UNODC] (Vienna, Austria)
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [ICTY] (The Hague, Netherlands)
United Nations [UN] (New York City)
World Trade Organization [WTO] (Geneva, Switzerland)
United Nations World Tourism Organization [UNWTO] (Madrid, Spain)
United Nations Refugee Agency [UNHCR] (Geneva, Switzerland or Budapest, Hungary)
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs [NDI] (Washington, D.C.)
Koch Public Sector (Washington, D.C.)
Hopefully one of these will accept me into their internship options, and there are many that I would love to have. Several are located in places that I've never been to which is exciting, and I am glad I have the opportunity to even apply. Looking at internships has also turned up several places that have career employment options open currently that would interest me, and I'm starting to look forward to getting my career underway.
