Let me just start by saying who knew blogging could be so hard? A blog is defined as “a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.” Being a person that loves to tell stories, and talk to other people about my thoughts and opinions a blog should come naturally to me, right? Wrong.
As I sit here on my second day of my internship at Talk, I cannot for the life of me think of what to write about. Should I write about how I sat here yesterday at the intern’s desk – located in the front of a perfectly designed office (one that has actually won an interior design award!) – with its pink walls, and cheerful staff, and just felt like this is where I belonged? Or should I write about how nerve-wracking it was to finally be able to put the knowledge I have learned over the past 3 years in a college classroom to the test?
Maybe I will just stick to saying that as I sat here yesterday reading through articles and headlines to look for possible tweets, I learned more about what is currently going on in the public relations world than I ever have in a classroom.
As I watched the news last night, I began thinking “oh that would be a good tweet. I have to remember that for tomorrow.” And I realized that this internship has already started to change the way I think of and look at public relations. If this much has already happened, and it is only day two, I can’t even begin to imagine all the knowledge and experience that awaits me here at Talk. And hey, maybe I will even learn to write a blog…
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