If you will direct your attention to the right hand side of your screen, you will notice a series of links. Essentially, these links are sites that I think are important in some capacity.
One of these links, you may notice, is titled ‘The United States.’ I encourage you to follow the link. Here, my friends, you can find (or link to) almost anything you could ever possibly want to know about the federal government of the United States of America.
How did you stumble across this cornucopia of knowledge, Leah? you may ask. We are in awe of your prescience.
…Or maybe not.
This summer, I worked as an intern at the Internal Revenue Service’s Personnel Security division. Basically, that meant that I did a lot of filing and wrote a procedures manual. But that’s beside the point.
The point is that when I had downtime between projects or meetings, I didn’t have much to do other than surf the Internet. There was only one problem: for whatever reason, my computer had all non-government Internet sites blocked. As a direct result, I became very good friends with usa.gov.
In all honesty, that hasn’t been a bad thing. I spent a good part of my summer browsing the history of different government agencies, learning more about how to do things like get passports, and looking through government job listings. I have no desire to work for the government, but it was interesting to see all the opportunities available for federal employment.
In sum, if you ever run out of YouTube videos or web comics to peruse, click through to The United States. See what you can find. There is an ungodly amount of information on usa.gov that is simply begging to be read.
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