Please disregard this embarrassing selfie of my wacky bowtie and blazer. This was the only photo evidence that I had from my time as a page in one of the district offices of the Ohio Senate. With a little help from my RA last year, I was hired here over the summer, and have been working here for the past six months. From my interview to my last day this week, walking into the beautiful, old State House down town never failed to send shivers down my spine. My responsibilities in the office were answering emails, organize our constituent database, run errands, and answer the phone in my office.  If I was lucky, I got to help edit floor speeches and press releases. Being a page gave me the opportunity to gain first hand insight into the State Budget passage process, and sit in on Caucus and Committee meetings. It might not seem like much, but being a page was a dream for a poli sci nerd like my self. Thanks to scheduling conflicts in the spring semester, my page career was cut short, but I will look back fondly on the Mondays and Wednesdays of my semester that I spent here. I consider this job my first “real job,” working alongside professionals in an office rather than other teens in a retail store or as an office assistant in my residence hall last year. Being a page was an excellent learning experience and a valuable foot in the door of my burgeoning career in politics.