Alec Carlyle

Which is exactly why this article is saying that something should be done about that. School credit really makes it worse, and I would even argue that most students are choosing to not take academic credit for internships anymore. Why? Because that academic credit, especially during… Read More

But the issue here is that a lot of people can't afford to even make it through that internship. I don't think anyone doubts the prestige and the opportunity that a White House internship presents. If anything, that's an important element of the problem. Such an important and prestigious… Read More

One crime does not exclude another. If anything, in this case, it make it more relevant. A student without the economic advantage of rich parents will likely struggle to pay their way through college as it is. By using these unpaid internships, it's categorically cutting out kids… Read More

Because there are people, a lot of people, who can't afford the added expense of spending the summer in DC to start with. In doing so, it's categorically limiting opportunities to people who already have the means and financial support to go. People can't complain that Washington… Read More

It's not like it makes one any sneakier. If you're looking that obviously, I'm going to notice, whether you're wearing Google Glass or not.

It's not really ignorance at all. They're two entities that share the same name. One, however, is a state within a major country and the other stands alone as a separate country. I'm Canadian and I thought of the the American state of Georgia first as well because it is… Read More