Power views don’t come a whole lot better than the one from the west-facing windows of the interns’ office: the steep, jagged, snowcapped peaks of the Canadian Rockies, as seen from an upper story of a building so large that it takes up an entire city block of downtown Calgary, and so high that it dominates the skyline. It was a few minutes past seven-thirty on the last night of my internship. I had just cleaned out my desk. There had been a little party for the interns an hour earlier. After cupcakes and fruit punch and balloons, the others had said their good-byes and left for the airport to catch planes to Toronto and Winnipeg and Montreal. I stayed behind. My plane wasn’t out until the morning and, besides, I wanted to soak up the atmosphere, to bask in the knowledge that, for the moment at least, I was living out my dream. I, Miranda Liu, was well on my way to having a small part to play in transforming the world as we know it. Yes! It was a heady feeling and I wanted to enjoy it while I could.
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