The Realness of Research

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…

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Stranger in a Strange Land

I spent the latter half of August and the first two weeks of the Fall 2015 semester hammering out the details of my internship with Independence Blue Cross Foundation. It was a long road, with many phone calls and emails exchanged but eventually everything worked itself out. I don’t remember what…

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The Right Fit

Entering any industry can be intimidating, especially when you’re just starting out as an intern because we really don’t know what to expect. We’ve all heard the horror stories of being placed at a desk by the trash or having to do nothing but coffee runs. Or the polar opposite…

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The Moment of Truth

  On the first day of my internship, the other intern and myself were given a list of daily responsibilities we would be in charge of throughout the semester. Most of them were just your regular office activities, but “Group Sales Prospecting” was listed and later on that day we…

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