Participating in the New York State Senate Session Assistants Program was the best experience of my college education.  As a student at the University at Albany studying public policy with a concentration in education policy, I applied for this internship to learn more about how government works, and more specifically to learn about New York State education policy and the challenges facing education policy on a daily basis. Being placed in Senator Flanagan’s office, who is the chair of the New York State Senate Education Committee, was a dream come true!