During my sophomore of college, everyone I knew was looking for a summer internship. The thinking was that an internship would make them more marketable come graduation. Now, I had no idea what I wanted to be when I "grew up," but since I was majoring in political science, I figured an internship on Capitol Hill would be a good place to start. I looked up the Representative from my district, and those from the surrounding districts, too. I identified a half-dozen offices that I would like to intern at, and started pulling together all the necessary material. First, I worked up a...