Within the first few weeks of my internship, I have helped with a lot of different tasks.  I have updated the Pathways to Housing Pa website in small ways.  I have monitored a campaign and written social media shout outs, and emails for the donors.  I also wrote a press release within my first week.  I have done a lot of little things but in the end it is important because these things need to be done in order to make things happen. I am proud of the work that I have done at Pathways to Housing Pa.  I am…

The other week I was dropped from a hold at my freelance job. This happens all the time – jobs cancel, dates get moved around… no big deal. But then I came in to the studio and overheard them talking about the job still. I realized that it was still happening… I was kicked off of it. So of course I was pissed off, kindof hurt even, racking my brain to figure out what I did wrong. Was I doing a bad job as a photo assistant? Did I forget to clean something, or say something wrong in front of…

The most valuable skill I’ve learned so far at my internship is how to keep the trash can empty and the coffee flowing. Basically with what I do, my entire job is to make sure that there are no problems and nothing goes wrong. In a photo studio, clients want to be impressed, and they don’t want to worry about anything. And the photographer wants to put on a show and make everyone feel like he has everything under control. Casually. So that means the trash is always empty, the studio is always clean, I always know the wi-fi password,…

Everyday when I walk into my internship at Siquis in Baltimore, as a junior account executive I don’t just try to do great work, but I try to make an impression on people. I make a point to say good morning to almost everyone in the office. Siquis is a small agency, they have about 30 people, so it isn’t that hard to make the effort to say good morning to them. One thing that is important to me is that the people there will miss me when I’m gone. Not just miss my work and me helping, but miss…

Who would have thought starting an internship would shape my future and the things I want compared to the things I thought I wanted. Joining the Independence Blue Cross team was intimidating. Going into the big city everyday to go to a high floor and look over the beautiful city of Philadelphia. It felt as if I grew up overnight and wasn’t a college student anymore but a business woman working in the city of brotherly love. I wasn’t sure how the corporate life would treat me and what exactly I would be doing. All I knew was I was excited to work…

As an Account Management intern at LevLane Advertising, I thought my summer would be spent crunching numbers at a tiny desk tucked away from the “real” employees. One hour into my first day on the job, I quickly discovered that I was in for an amazing experience. Every clichéd idea I had about a drab, fluorescent lit, cubicle-filled summer was completely shattered. The whole atmosphere in the agency is one that encourages creative development and productivity, and the young staff radiates with friendship and positivity. My desk lies in the middle of an open cluster, giving me a head-on view…

  You know how often as an intern you are trusted to handle work that is important to the team and not just actual grunt work? Not very often that’s what! So when you are actually tasked with some thing important, its very imperative that you clearly understand the task otherwise it’s pretty hard to complete it. I had this same issue when I was given the responsibility of checking the expiration dates for offers in our streaming spots.Seems pretty simple but I noticed some incorrect names and spots that I wasn’t absolutely sure of. I could either work on…

What a Rush For the past two months I’ve been interning at a full service ad agency called Siquis as a junior account executive. It is located in Baltimore and it relatively small with about 30 people employed there. I wanted to talk about one of the craziest days I had so far at Siquis. I start my day by checking my email and getting ready for my daily status call with one of our clients. These daily calls are about 20 minutes. We also have a longer status call every Wednesday. By the time this status call ended I…

From as long as I can remember I have not been the small talker. I’d run out of something to say in about two seconds flat and then just stand there awkwardly. This hindered me from even trying to talk to some people at times in fear that I might freeze up and my general questions like “how are you?” might not cut it and make the person pick up the conversation. The thought of freezing in front of someone that was my superior even frightened me more. What if I look stupid? What if they ask something I don’t…

Being an intern at R.B. Packaging Innovations has been a once in a lifetime chance for me to work alongside my brother in revolutionizing the prescription pill bottle. We have a unique design that not only saves cost in packaging and shipping, but achieves a hundred percent satisfactory rate among those who have seen it. Our bottle has a push and slide cap that makes it easy to open, yet mentally challenging to figure out. I am happy to be at the ground floor of such a blossoming company and I am confident that in time our bottle will revolutionize the…

Today we met with one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world to discuss our revolutionary prescription pill bottle. It was the second time meeting with this company and it went very well. We have, and presented, molded parts which work and look great. A few more tests and we’ll be prepped and ready to show this to the world.  

My Internship is almost over. Now what? I worked at Red Tettemer because I knew it would be a well-established agency that would be able to teach me a lot. I really liked the range of clients they worked with and I wanted to see the strategies that runs those brands (including Planet Fitness, Morningstar Farms, and Dockers). The agency is a friendly, fun environment that let me learn in a fast pace. I feel like I have been instilled with great knowledge for future jobs or internships, but I just really have no clue what I want to do…

I have never seen Mad Men. In high school, my freshman journalism teacher was so gung ho about the program that I decided to avoid it at all costs, just to stick it to the man. To this day, I have continued boycotting the bandwagon to preserve my own image of the industry. Thankfully, her obsession with advertising led to a small unit including the 1979 documentary, Killing Us Softly, which examines the way women are portrayed in advertisements. I was so intoxicated by the idea that these handpicked words and images could affect the mindset and behaviors of hundreds…