Internship

Hello,

I decided it would be in my best interest to write you an email to let you know that I am very interested in assisting you with your project. I figured I would send you a preliminary email to let you know about my background before I send you a resume/essay.

I am recent graduate from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Evergreen is a very liberal and progressive school, and I have been a serious student there, focusing my education on writing, political science, philosophy and history. My final quarter at Evergreen I was in a program called Transforming the Art of War, which focused specifically on recent military practices, insurgencies and the future of warfare. We studied DARPA, and the use of robotics and high-tech methods of waging war.

In my time at Evergreen, I have written a screenplay, a collection of short stories, a book of poetry and a cavalcade of pretty much any and every type of writing possible. During my junior year, I was in a program called Undergraduate Research in the Humanities, where I focused my work exclusively on academic research and fact-checking, and have been told most of my life that I would be a fantastic research assistant. I am a smart, engaging young man who is extremely interested in war and the perception of war in American life. At Evergreen we were implored to challenge conventional wisdom and to think for ourselves, and feel aligned with the aim of your project.

I recently applied to begin work on an MFA in the fall, and have free-time in which I would love to assist you in your project. I live in Olympia for the next few weeks, but am moving to DC around the 12th of February. I'd be happy to email you some of the essays I wrote for Transforming the Art of War, with one focusing on the history of the PIRA and my final paper regarding the use of appearances and misleading information as being the fulcrum of waging modern war, in which the reality on the ground has little to do with the war itself. I am interested in modern and recent military transgressions, including Fallujah, Abu-Gharib, the March 03 fratricide in Nasiriyah and the general appalling treatment of Iraqi civilians by coalition forces, especially the assault and kidnapping practices used in cordon-sweep operations during the beginning of the war. I read Thomas Ricks, Noah Schachtman, The Danger Room and Military Space News regularly.

Again, I would love to help. Please email me whenever you get the chance.