To think that it is already February 8th and I haven't blogged since before Thanksgiving is CRAZY. But then I look at my life and wonder how I even have time to type this up right now.
1. I am a full-time graduate student, in class for 12 hours a week. Plus graduate level homework, which is no easy task.
2. I am a part-time TA, for graphics classes. I teach five a week, totaling six hours of teaching, plus I spend approximately nine hours a week in my office, doing helpshops and keeping track of lab attendance, a.k.a. a total of 15 hours a week.
3. Finally, I am a part-time deli employee at Wegmans. Going on six years with the company. This weekend I worked Fri.-Sun., for a grand total of 24 hours.
Let's put that altogether...12+15+24=51 hours a week...not including time spent doing homework, exercising, and sleeping. This makes me think I could TOTALLY handle agency PR, since weeks are typically longer than 40 hours a week. Good to know I could handle that much work and so many projects at the same time.
Currently I am getting ready to write up a case study on best practices in PR management. I think that I want to focus on crisis communications, but maybe employee relations. Regardless, once I have picked the issue, I have to research various organizations and see how they practice the issue, and see who seems to handle it best. I'm still a bit confused on the difference between my literature review and the rest of the case study because they seem like they'd be the same thing, but apparently not. The literature review will be a review of what the said issue is, such as what I mean by crisis communications, and will review some cases that have been studied before. The rest of the case study will be my analysis of approximately three different companies and their PR practices. I think it should be interesting and I'll definitely learn a lot.
Next, in Agency PR, we were split up into groups and formed mini PR agencies. My group is a mid-sized firm and we represent RF|Binder. We are going to really learn what it will be like to be working for an agency. We just finished a project, called a differentiating factors report. This just means we did research on the firm we represent and wrote up a sheet with information about what makes RF|Binder different (and perhaps better) than other firms. We are trying to be selected by the client to represent them and their new product, iZUP. Of course this is fairly fictional, and we won't really do the actual campaign and take on the client, but we are competing with the small and large firms (other class members in their respective teams) for who would have been picked as the representing agency had this been real. It's all pretty exciting.
My other two classes are fun and I am definitely learning a lot, campaigns and ethics. Ethics is a bit intimidating but I think I'll do fine and in campaigns we get to work with a real client, like we did in research last semester. Overall, I think this semester is going to be great, and I'm excited that it is my last. Already in week four, time is flying.
Wedding plans are coming along and I landed an internship at the Erie Maritime Museum and Flagship Niagara League for the summer and I'm really looking forward to it. I will be working there 40 hours a week for eight weeks and then my degree will be complete...UNLESS I find a job...then I can do that, and the first eight weeks will count to finish my degree!
Well, I better run as I have to teach now! :)
Happy blogging...
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