Elliott Stewart (CS 490)

Its been a little different pace at work. With the other interns back and forth from their spring breaks some of the normal stuff that is taken care of the other days was passed onto me. I didn’t mind because it was a good change of pace. I had to do a lot of errands at work just getting things for future events. I wish I could have this internship over the summer because that’s when the election will pick up and things will become more exciting because more people will be paying attention to the election. I do enjoy seeing what all goes into putting on a campaign of this size. I think it’s something that I could do a career or I would at least like to start out doing it after college. I would like to work on a national campaign so that I could potentially travel across the United States. I’m thinking in a few weeks things at the office will start to pick up and go more into its full campaign mode. Some things I do like about right now is that they are trying to raise money and it’s cool to see the different ways they try to raise the money. I don’t think I could ever be in that part of the campaign because I don’t like asking for money but the people here are very good at what they do and it’s kind of admirable.Its been a little different pace at work. With the other interns back and forth from their spring breaks some of the normal stuff that is taken care of the other days was passed onto me. I didn’t mind because it was a good change of pace. I had to do a lot of errands at work just getting things for future events. I wish I could have this internship over the summer because that’s when the election will pick up and things will become more exciting because more people will be paying attention to the election. I do enjoy seeing what all goes into putting on a campaign of this size. I think it’s something that I could do a career or I would at least like to start out doing it after college. I would like to work on a national campaign so that I could potentially travel across the United States. I’m thinking in a few weeks things at the office will start to pick up and go more into its full campaign mode. Some things I do like about right now is that they are trying to raise money and it’s cool to see the different ways they try to raise the money. I don’t think I could ever be in that part of the campaign because I don’t like asking for money but the people here are very good at what they do and it’s kind of admirable.

  

Elliott Stewart (CS 490) blog

With more and more events going on during the month of March I find myself being doing more independent work at the office. Personally, I don’t like working alone because it seems boring. I like to be able to interact with others that are doing similar work. Lately I have sat in a cubical doing work on the computer and answering phones. I understand the need for this but it’s definitely not something I could do for a career. I enjoy that ability to bounce ideas off of others so I can produce the best possible work. The work that I’ve been doing hasn’t been to challenging or open for me to really mess up so it’s not necessary for me to work with others. Hopefully it will soon go back to how it was at the beginning of the internship.     

Elliott Stewart (CS 490)

This week was a little slow because most of the work was out of the office stuff. Many of the employees had to attend dinners and banquets so didn't come into the office much. I was mainly in charge of doing the daily tasks of the office.

I did get to over hear some really interesting conversations between a few different people. Mainly there was a lot of talk about future fundraising and how much they expected to earn in the upcoming months. It’s really intriguing to listen to people talk about multimillion dollar exchanges like they aren't that big of a deal. It's a aspect of campaigning I've never been a part of and listening to it made me interested to possibly working with the fundraising department.