The Legislative Research Commission or LRC, does a lot of important behind the scenes work for the Kentucky General Assembly.

And right now, eight college students are interning with the LRC to see if government is the right future for them.

Because of what you do.

You're affected by the General Assembly and every citizen will know what's going on in the General Assembly.

The LRC internship is a full time internship.

It's a competitive internship.

We bring them in in November for three days.

They meet with every committee, the heads of every committee staff, just to hear what those folks are dealing with.

At the end of that orientation, I ask them to give me three places they would not mind working, doing their internship.

I try my best to give them one of those three.

They're either juniors or seniors and they already have a career path in mind.

I think when people think of being a political science major, it is a very non-linear career field.

But everyone automatically thinks of politician or lawyer, and the reality is that there is a whole lot more to the field than just those two careers.

And so I kind of wanted to get in and get to see a little bit more of what career options kind of lay before me, but also just to get some more firsthand experience, because at the end of the day, you can read about all you want and see it in a classroom, but until you're actually there and seeing it happening right before you, you're not going to have that full understanding.

They do the entire semester here, but the legislature will adjourn no later than April 15th, but they are here through April 30.

It's very meaningful internship, which has an academic component.

A couple of classes that they take here, and also then the practicum part of the internship where they actually become a part of LRC staff.

My role is to make sure that that we remember their students.

They're doing good work for us and some heavy duty research and a little bit of bill drafting.

They're an extra hand, but primarily they're students and we want this to be a learning experience for them.

I decided to apply to this program because I felt like the description was a line of what I want to do in my career.

I would like to be a criminal justice attorney.

And so I thought that this was set a nice foundation.

For me.

Going into my legal.

Legal profession.

I hope that I can make this a career.

I'm really impressed with a lot of the work and the impact that I've seen in this short week that I've been here.

I think that public service is very meaningful and this opportunity just kind of fell in my lap and I'm hoping that I can embrace it.

Their hands on.

There are students that have interned here for us who, when they left, said, I never want to see the inside of another government building again.

To me, that's a successful internship because internships not only show you what you might want to do or what you you might ought also want to do, but also they can show you what you don't want to do.

And to me, that success.

And Sheila mason does some incredible work there in Frankfurt.

The interns wrapped up the second week of their internship today.

Good luck, guys.