This weekend was a little rough and, with the news from Orlando, I was feeling a little off for days.
Sunday: I ended up hanging out with some friends from high school at a coffee shop which is a thing I never do so that was a bit strange. I /tried/ to study while I was there but only got one assignment done before I figured that I wasn’t going to get anything else done. I’m glad I went, though, because it had been a while.
Monday was the first day of week two of summer school. I’m blaming it on feeling so off from the weekend and a series of bad events that involve cops blocking my parking deck, but I was a whole two minutes late to my marketing research class. I’m never late for class, so that in itself was awful. It was made worse by the fact that my professor counts you as absent if you’re even 30 seconds late, so I didn’t get credit for being there for the 2 and a half hour class period. She barely even let me turn in my assignments, one of which was a project, which would have left me screwed in my final grade.
Fortunately, I was able to turn them in.
On Tuesday, I spent the morning at my Zoo internship. Tuesdays are always a little chaotic with Takeover Tuesday posts on social media. There’s anywhere between 12 to 20 posts of photos and videos that have to be posted at specific times on these days. Pair that with the normal responsibilities and it’s a little messy for a while. On Tuesday I also got to eat lunch with the agency? Which I’m not entirely sure what that means but they were very nice people.
Wednesday was my first exam of the semester in marketing research. We had managed to go over 6 chapters in three class periods, so they were all on the exam. My professor has told me that I did “very well” but I have yet to see the actual grade so I don’t know if I fully believe that. I know I missed a few questions, but I’m hoping it’s a decently high grade because I want to get another 4.0 this semester!
Thursday was back to the internship in the morning. My new short days on Tuesday/Thursday seem to always be busy now. What little down time I had before seems to be almost completely gone but it’s a good busy. I make Paid Social advertisements on Facebook and write social media posts for the week. I have a few research projects that I’m working on for the marketing department that I spend time on as well. In the class I have after work we had a surprise quiz that I believe I did exceptionally well on but we’ll see when we get grades back.
Friday was the first day at my internship where my direct manager was not there. It was a little stressful, I admit. I was responsible for all of the Instagram posts as well as Google+ (who cares about Google+ though, let’s be honest). We were preparing for Father’s Day weekend so there was a lot of social media posts about specific animals and making sure we have the correct animals in pictures. I made it through, though, and I feel a little more confident in my abilities now (and if I’m doubting myself there’s always someone that I can go to for help).
As for my video internship, I feel like I don’t talk about it much on here. I’ve been signing up for video topics on Monday for the past two weeks, producing the video by Wednesday, and then doing edits through the end of the week. So far I’ve been doing restaurant round-ups because I’m waiting for the equipment they’re sending to arrive as well as for the deposit that I’ll use to buy my new camera. I want my videos to be high quality so for now I’ll continue to do the videos with minimal filming until I get everything organized.
I’ve learned the name of the game this summer is to be constantly prepared. I study and read before class, take detailed notes during class, and have everything that’s due scheduled into my phone. There’s not a lot of time for “fun” or “hanging out” right now in my life but I feel like this summer will be worth it when I’m graduating and will have such great experience on my resume. It’ll be worth it when I’m exploring Disney World this fall again.
For The Sleepless Nights 