My team of advisers informs me that an internship in D.C. and academic credit from Georgetown would probably be more impressive to future employers than clips from a small paper in a small town.

But there’s a wrinkle. Columbia requires that my last 12 credits be completed at Columbia. While I’ll probably get six or more credits from Columbia for the internship, the other six would be transfer credits from the Georgetown work. So I need to get special permission from the college to let me graduate using those credits.

I hope it all gets worked out. I really would like to be able to do this thing. Living in D.C. for the summer certainly would be more fun than Shelby, N.C. The D.C. program also covers housing and I wouldn’t have to worry about having access to a car, either. No final decision yet, though. Stay tuned.

Oh, by the way, in addition to not landing The Vindicator copy-editing internship in Youngstown, Ohio, I was also passed over the href=”http://www.reason.com/”>Reason magazine Burton C. Gray Memorial Internship. As was my friend Julian Sanchez. The winner? Jeremy Lott, a former colleague of mine at Spintech magazine.