Unfortunately, I am a child. I graduated from high school an entire month ago. I was a Senior, with all the absolute power and respect that the rank endows, and now, I am an intern. If I were on a totem pole, I’d be in the dirt. Luckily, there is no real totem pole. Instead, there is an office full of wonderful and supportive people, specifically my mentor, Joe. Despite my inexperience and academic infancy,

As an undergraduate studying economics and environmental studies, I have done my fair share of data analysis and modeling. I applied to work at the Henry’s Fork Foundation this summer to experience the other side of research; the groundwork and data collection. My econometrics professor would always reiterate to our class that when we are modeling data, we are taking numbers (data) and eliciting their story. If modeling data is telling a story with numbers, then data collection must be like raising the numbers from the dead and giving