That’s a line I hear a lot. Usually it’s the response I get right after people ask me how I’m putting my six years of post-secondary education to good use, and I tell them that I’m an intern. “Well,” they say, looking extra-sympathetic, “everyone has to start somewhere.”

For me, this “somewhere” isn’t just the fourth floor of a freezing cold office in the west end of the city. It’s a place where life as I’ve come to know (and love) it, is undergoing some major changes. Great changes. Exciting changes. Scare-the-crap-right-out-of-you changes.

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