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The Realness of Research

Emily Jo Isom — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:50:18 +0000

As a research student in the Advertising department, it is a lot of times difficult to put yourself in real life scenarios of things that might happen during research or how it actually happens in the real world. This semester I interned at Schlesinger Associates, a market research company that facilitates a lot of online quantitative research for clients, but also has an in-house focus group…

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What I learned in a boat museum is…

Emily Jo Isom — Tue, 05 May 2015 17:07:42 +0000

I hope you all got that Spongebob reference, except I actually learned a lot working at the Independence Seaport Museum as a Marketing and PR intern. The experience gave me a chance to learn how to do tasks that I wouldn’t learn inside a classroom. I got to go to office meetings that I wouldn’t get to experience in Annenberg. And overall my time at the Museum was a valuable tool to learn the…

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An Unexpected Upgrade

Emily Jo Isom — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:19:37 +0000

I was unsure of how my experience at the Independence Seaport Museum as a Marketing Intern was going to go, however I was hopeful because my boss seemed enthusiastic about having me get the most out of my internship. Her enthusiasm was encouraging, but I realized as the days at my internship progressed that it was masking the mediocrity of the tasks she was assigning me. I would start research…

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