Hi, my name is Matt Lynam. I am a senior in the advertising program on the management track. For this past semester I have been interning at a large, privately owned, international paper distribution company called LindenMeyr. Recently I have been assisting the regional manager by helping put together interactive maps that show the profitability of the top 25-30 accounts in a given region. I made these maps so the regional manager could show them to his boss during their monthly meetings. It was very interesting to see the how different accounts get billed extremely differently, and the politics that…

  Here I am… 3 1/2 months later and it’s the last day of my internship. Looking back on the semester, I have come to appreciate the experience as a whole and the valuable learning opportunity it has provided me with. I’m glad I made the decision to fulfill my course credits by completing an advertising internship in the city because I was able to gain valuable skills along the way- skills I like to call Skills for Life. I’m not talking about practice with InDesign or Photoshop, though those did play a part, as well. Rather, it was the…

This semester I have gained a ton of real life experience in the advertising industry, as well as the feeling of a 9-5 day. I have learned the importance of organization and communication in a business as well as what it takes to be successful in the industry. Working as a small group, MOD has to bust out tons of work every day but they do it right and on time. I have helped to create schedules for projects as well as navigation maps that keep the employees on the right track. Currently the business is re-branding itself which is…

I don’t know if it’s quite been finalized, but it looks like I’m going to be staying on at 12+ for the summer. I’m very excited. This is the first job I’ve ever had where I always looked forward to going to work, no exceptions. Every day, I leave knowing that I’m making a difference. Honestly, I don’t know if I can see myself working outside of the non-profit realm. I don’t care if I get paid a fraction of what others make, you can’t put a price on the satisfaction I receive from serving the community. At this point…

This semester I was fortunate enough to be a social media intern with one of center city’s newest ad agencies, Masterminds. This full service ad agency original office is in Atlantic City, NJ and they cater to travel and leisure clients. They opened a second office in Philadelphia in September of last year. I learned a great deal from the people who make up their company and even freelanced for them for a bit. Since they cater to clients such as hotels, casinos and vacation destinations, my internship was fun but very technical. I never knew how much the law factored…

This past semester I have been interning at Cashman and Associates Public Relations & Special Events, a boutique public relations firm in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia. The firm has a wide array of clients including AMG Revel, Hotel Monaco, Flywheel Sports, Mitchell and Ness, Bernie Robbins, Hotel Palomar, Shake Shack and Steven Starr restaurants. While I have had previous internships in the public relations industry, I have yet to have one in Philadelphia, so it has definitely been a great learning experience about the Philadelphia media industry. I realized through my first public relations internship that I wanted…

As one of a few interns at iBluein, I had a chance to get excited for my own work to be on the press. My name is Yeeun Oh and I am about to earn bachelor’s degree in Advertising under both Art Direction track and Account Management track. Since it was my last semester when I was interning at iBluein, the company and I both tried to enhance better experiences in and out of office. Due to generous working environment of iBluein, I got to participate in both art direction and account management—sales field.   It was more than exciting…

Throughout my journey of finding, solidifying and following up with internships, InternQueen.com, whose motto is “All Work, No Pay”. has basically been my go-to guide. But if my past two internships are any representation of the real world in public relations, I have learned that interns as well as professionals are granted opportunities that occur on rare occasions. Although it is work, I have been exposed to new people, places and food that I would have never been exposed to without my internships. It is definitely of the perk of the industry, but it is all granted with hard work…

When I hear others complaining about their internships, and all the tedious work they have to do, I know I lucked out in getting an internship at Tristate Indie. They say, if you love what you do then you’re not working, a statement that I’d say holds true to the subject. I thought my internship was going to be at an agency, assuming the role of the coffee and errand guy. Instead I got to work with a small, local business like Tristate Indie. Tristate Indie is relatively new to Philadelphia, having moved here from Lancaster. Though they’re new, as…