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&lt;p class=&quot;FreeForm&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By Kaneisha Grayson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;FreeForm&quot;&gt;The summer before my senior year of college, with  two paid internships secured, I shipped off to Los Angeles eager and  excited to meet success, only to find disaster instead. Just one day in,  I quit my internship placement at a law advocacy center, unable to cope  with commuting an hour and a half to a run-down and windowless  courthouse to spend the day recording the disturbing testimonies of  battered women. And because my second internship, a self-designed, funded  research project depended on the first one. In a single day, my summer  plans had collapsed. I felt like a failure. &lt;strong&gt;READ MORE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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