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I started my internship last summer, around mid June. I intern with Megan at the Council For Drugs and Alcohol once a week for three and a half hours. While there, we help a team of councillors update data, keeps files up to date, and sit in on staff briefings and their teen 12 step class. When I am older, I would like to be a psychiatrist, so I feel like having an internship like mine gives me great exposure to that world. I am interested to know what you think about my internship, and what other kinds of internships you all have.    

3/2 Post

Comment on any connections that you were able to make between The Great Gatsby and the topics that you are exploring in IHSS and Science. How did our outings and/or the seminar contribute to your ability to make these connections.

One of the major things is Gatsby that hit me pretty hard was the contrast between the East and West Egg, compared to the Valley of Ashes. Although the two areas relatively were not far from each other, the living conditions were drastically different. To me, this seems parallel to our city. After visiting the different grocery stores, as well as the elementary school, I've realized that the economic disparity in Houston is vast. Just a few miles away from our school is a food desert, where many families are living dangerously close to the poverty line. The outings and seminars on the American Dream both made this connection clear to me. I am lucky enough to say that my grandparents and parents achieved the "American Dream", something I thought was common and achievable until recently. Now, I realize many of the families living in these poor conditions might have also been aspiring for the same thing my family was thirty years ago, but were not as lucky.