Now that summer is startng to end - we have less than a week left in July its time to start thinking about how to turn our summer expreiences into action. Some of us we may have a tangible product from our internship, while others may recieve academic credits, or a stipend. Whatever we've done, and whatever we recieve from our internships it is crucial that we start thinking about how we can take our summer expriences and use them to further the progressive movement.

Since we're in Washington I though I'd mention politics first. It is a presidential election year and the easy out is to work on a campaignl. Sure this does a lot of good for one individual, and if we're optimistic the country. But more importantly we can really use our experiences to start activism efforts back on our campuses. Although this diretctly affects a smaller group of individuals in the end these individauls can continue to work.  While the summer's still here we can continue to volunteer, but we should continue to use the skills we've developed to help others.