April 16, 2018
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美高梅博彩的西奥多·约翰逊作为佐治亚州众议院实习生经历了现实世界的政治
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VALDOSTA — 西奥多·约翰逊 came to 美高梅博彩 as an honors pre-med biology major dead set on becoming a doctor. 然后他遇到了麻烦。
“I realized I couldn’t do math as well as I would have liked to, so I switched over to political science completely on a whim,” he said with a laugh.
这个决定把他带进了一个让他着迷和兴奋的世界，并让他走上了一条新的职业道路。 It also gave him the opportunity to spend the Georgia 2018 legislative session — Jan. 8 to March 31 — at the State Capitol in Atlanta as a Georgia House of Representatives intern.
约翰逊在多数党领袖乔恩·伯恩斯（R-Newington）的办公室工作，在那里他向代表介绍并建议当前的立法，协调会议，与游说者互动，并参加特别的国会活动等。
他说，实习的一个亮点是见证了国会大厦的跨界日。
“That’s the last day for legislation to leave one chamber, whether it be the House or Senate, to make it over in time for consideration in the secondary,” he said. “It’s really cool to watch how lobbyists and legislators have to get down to brass tacks. If there’s something that is holding up their bill that might stop it from making it through, they have to make concessions on the spot while maintaining their constituents’ best interests. That was astounding and exciting to see.”
来自乔治亚州玛丽埃塔的约翰逊最初对这份实习很感兴趣，因为它提供了建立人际关系的机会。他说，在美高梅博彩的经历让他在国会大厦建立了宝贵的人际关系。
“I did a lot of networking up there,” he said. “I’m a member of vs上’s Delta Chi fraternity, and that really got me into the habit of talking to every person I meet and not just playing the wallflower role. That really came in handy during the internship.”
他补充说，他在美高梅博彩的教授，特别是政治学系的马克·普方博士和詹姆斯·拉普兰特博士，帮助他在现实世界的政治中取得成功。
“I took numerous constitutional law and administration law classes that really gave me quite an insight into what I’d be doing as an intern,” he said. “I got involved in political science completely on a whim. 这从来都不是我在高中时考虑过的事情。 但一旦我进入这个领域，我就意识到它的影响有多大。
“Government touches everybody, and the law plays a huge role in the nation. I’m very glad that I have stuck with this field.”
约翰逊是乔安妮·特林布尔（Joanne Trimble）和凯文·约翰逊（Kevin Johnson）的儿子，预计将于今年5月毕业，获得政治学文学学士学位。 他计划从秋天开始上法学院。
“I’ve already been accepted to five law schools, so I’ve been set up very well by Valdosta State,” he said.
他希望在知识产权法领域执业，但也愿意探索其他领域。
“And because of how welcoming the political community has been and because of the relationships that I’ve made, it’s not asinine for me to think that one day I might run for a representative position,” he added.
在美高梅博彩期间，约翰逊通过他的兄弟会完成了100多个小时的社区服务，包括在食品银行做志愿者，维护一段高速公路，以及为受自然灾害影响的人提供援助。 He has also participated in the fraternity’s annual fundraiser for The V Foundation for Cancer Research. He served as the fraternity’s director of residential oversight from 2014 to 2015. 2013年至2014年，他是vs上荣誉学院的成员。 He was also chosen to present at vs上’s 本科 Research Symposium in 2015, where he presented his study titled “Georgia and the Transition of Political Tendencies,” which discusses Georgia's transition from a one-party Democratic state to a nearly one-party Republican state over the last half of the 20th century.
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