May 2014

Fastenal Internship

Fastenal: What is the business? I started working at Fastenal during the fall semester and turned it into an internship for the spring. The business is distributing industrial supply to local companies and industrial vending. There are three Fastenal stores…

Big Apple

My name is Matthew Morrison and I work for Temple News. Friday, the fourth of April was no ordinary day. A few Temple news workers, including my self, were sitting on a train out of Hamburg NJ barreling down the…

StyleHaul Intern Diaries

A day in the life of a Stylehaul NYC intern is interesting. I walk into an small office with splashes of colorful artwork and textured slick rugs, the office is made up of about 15 women separated by different departments.…

Sports Marketing Dream Internship

My name is Angela Pavalko and this semester I had an incredible opportunity to intern with Comcast-Spectacor in the Complex Marketing department. As a complex marketing intern I was in charge of assisting the marketing staff with Wings Lacrosse, 76ers,…

Julius Erving Shook My Hand

Hi guys! Once again my name is Angela Pavalko and this semester I had an incredible opportunity to intern with Comcast-Spectacor in the Complex Marketing department. As a complex marketing intern I was in charge of assisting the marketing staff…

StyleHaul Diaries

It has been a long and most rewarding semester for me. I was able to travel back and fourth for an amazing internship opportunity and continue to attend Temple University as a full time student. I knew it wasn’t going…

Comcast Spectacor

My name is Angela Pavalko and this semester I had an incredible opportunity to intern with Comcast-Spectacor in the Complex Marketing department. As a complex marketing intern I was in charge of assisting the marketing staff with Wings Lacrosse, 76ers,…

What my Internship Taught ME

My name is Alana Barretta, and I was an intern at Chatterblast Media, a social media marketing company. The following is a list of tools and tricks I learned and can help everyone while at their internship. An internship is…

Find Your Happy Place

I’ve always been told from time-to-time from people in the working world how important it is to love your job. Even some of my peers have high hopes to someday love their job when they get older. They don’t care…

My Internship Experience

For the Spring 2014 semester, I was offered a marketing internship at Rossi Wellness Center. Rossi Center is a medical practice that provides a variety of specializes in HIV/AIDS care, aesthetic  procedures, and opioid dependency. This experience has taught me about…

Bring Out The Merry Pranksters

Working at Magic Hat this past semester has been a blast but it has had its stressful moments. I’ve been working as the Philadelphia Merry Prankster for Magic Hat Brewing Company, which basically means I work in their Marketing and Sales…

Always be a Professional

People always told me, the purpose of an internship is the knowledge you take from that particular learning experience. I couldn’t agree more with that, except the type of knowledge I gained was something that I never expected to learn…

Overcoming Obstacles and Making Use of Your Time

VS. I have been interning with the Philadelphia Virtual Academy since January. The goal was to bring in students from competitors and increase enrollment and awareness. I went into the interview with a lot of ideas about what could be…

The First Days…

I started at my Internship at Paula Hian Designs in January of this year. I went in a little nervous because I didn’t know a lot about fashion, but also very excited. When meeting Paula previously at the interview, she…

The Realtime Media Experience Part I

My last staff meeting at Realtime Media (That’s me against the wall) Photo Cred: My Creative Director Will Redmond Hey guys, My name is Stanley and currently I am in the homestretch at Temple U. So for the past three…

Who am I?

During my time at Temple News, I have found one common feature among most to all of the people that work within the office … Stubbornness. I won’t be a hypocrite and not include myself under this category. It is…

The Photo Shoot

Today was my favorite day of my internship at Paula Hian Designs. While I did have to go in to work on a Saturday, I got to help in styling and running the photo shoot for Paula Hian’s Spring Collection.…

Getting Involved, Getting Excited

I used to be an education major so when I switched to advertising, although I love it, I missed having the chance to work with kids. For this reason, I was really excited when I saw an email come through…

Silverstein at Brownstein

My fourteen weeks as a copywriting intern at Brownstein Group have been so enjoyable in every capacity. Before this, I’ve had experiences in which I liked my coworkers, but hated the work. Other times, I got to create some awesome…

The End of an Era

To end my senior year interning for Campus Recreation was a great experience and a work load I can’t forget. I was able to discover a lot about myself and which direction in the advertising field I would like to…

Internships & Personal Discoveries

As a college student many people ask what my major is, my answer is Advertising. Most people respond by saying why Advertising. Well I’ll tell you why. I owe it all to Mr. Kendro at Delaware County Community College. He…

Temple News in the Big Apple

My name is Matthew Morrison and I work for Temple News. Friday, the fourth of April was no ordinary day. A few Temple news workers, including my self, were sitting on a train out of Hamburg NJ barreling down the…

“It’s the end of Interning as I know it”

Hello fellow Bloggers, Shannon Smith here, once again reporting to you live from the internship desk at WMMR radio station, home of the Preston & Steve morning show. Here at WMMR there are many events that are put on throughout…

Creating a Competitive Audit

Competitive Analyses are used in marketing and advertising in order to properly evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of current and feasible competitors. At Finch Brands, my main task has been to complete competitive audits for our clients, in order to…

Once A Contact, Always A Contact.

Rachael Silverstein here, bringing you one of the most important lessons that my copywriting internship at Brownstein Group has taught me. As a graduating senior, I’ve heard the whole “you gotta network to get work” spiel once or twice before.…

Sticking Around For The Summer!

I have been interning at Valley Forge Casino Resort and they just recently offered me a job for the summer. My supervisor even told me that she wishes I was a senior so she could offer me a full time…

VFCR: Making Someone Smile

Since the middle of February, I have been doing my internship at Valley Forge Casino Resort. I am considered a Marketing Rep. Intern and I work with customers all day. Valley Forge is very high on customer service and we…

Where did time go!?

The idea that I will be walking in graduation in less then a week still blows my mind, I truly feel like I just started college yesterday…now I’m searching for a job!? Although, being a transfer student I only had…

The Value of Experience

I have come to learn that internship and work experience is just as valuable as classroom education. As I approach the end of my internship at O3 World, a small interactive agency in Fishtown, I reflect on how much I…

The Dream Machine

Before starting my internship at Magic Hat Brewing Company I had no idea what I was in for. I guess I imagined my days to be monotonous and filled with busy work, like every other intern. But this internship couldn’t…

Rocking out with WMGK

Now that my time with 102.9 WMGK is coming to an end, I can now reflect on what my internship with Philly’s classic rock station has taught me. Working for WMGK has been a blast! Over this past semester, I…

The Realtime Media Experience Part II

Hey guys, It’s Stan again back with another blog about my experience at Realtime Media. Creativity, brainstorming, debates, and influence are just some things that I feel surrounds the advertising industry. The understanding that the survival of any agency is…

HTML for Dummies

During my interview for Fox Chase Cancer Center one of my interviewers asked if I had ever designed a webpage. I told her I hadn’t but would use the resources available to me to help me redesign their existing page.…