Hello,
My name is Thomas Rush. I am entering my 2nd year of Graduate School at Arizona State University where I am looking to complete my M.P.A. with a focus in Urban Management. Over the previous summer I spent 12 weeks working for The U.S. Department of Commerce in Cape Town, South Africa as a Trade Specialist. The goals I had before setting out were to soak up as much experience in various projects as possible, jump at any opportunity to be part of a new project whenever they came up, enjoy living in Cape Town on a personal level, and embrace the new position I found myself in. If by the end of this internship I can claim to better understand the nature of the position I was in, created high levels of good will with my peers and supervisors as to be asked to stay on in some capacity, and to feel that the internship provided me with a solid supplemental foundation to my academic structure then I will view it as a beneficial summer.
