In Fall 2017, I had the opportunity to intern at a leading consumer insights agency, Hypothesis Group. Located right next to the 7th Street/Metro Center station and down the street from Figat7th, their beautiful DTLA office was in a highly convenient and easily accessible location (especially for USC students!), surrounded by countless delicious food vendors.

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I sat in class on the third floor of the new Annenberg building, feeling both inspired and intimidated. It was during one of the first lectures of my Business and Economic Foundations of Public Relations course, a second-semester requirement of my graduate program. My brilliant professor, Burghardt Tenderich, had just finished lecturing on a practice that I, at the time, previously hadn’t...

Two facts: I made a Youtube channel in 5th grade and my least favorite subject in school is math. This past fall, I found myself working as an Audience Development Intern for AwesomenessTV, a numbers heavy position at a Youtube-centric company.

What does an Audience Development Intern do? I wasn’t exactly sure either, but scrolling through AwesomenessTV’s Youtube channel, I recognized...

Most college students go home after a long day of class and work to binge-watch Netflix, Hulu or HBO. Me? I prefer endless hours of CNN. Anderson Cooper is my Beyoncé and Poppy Harlow my Taylor Swift. Over the past couple of years while studying in LA, I’ve been fortunate enough to have held numerous internship positions within the news and media industries, but as my last undergraduate summer...

I stepped onto the picturesque Hollywood studio lot on a warm spring day. I wasn’t here for a tour, nor was I here to visit a friend – I was here for an interview! I can only imagine the possibilities of where my career will go if I worked here. I’m greeted by Jed, who says he is here to take me to my interview. He casually hops onto a golf cart and turns it on, waiting for me to get into the...

After attending lectures by USC Coach Clay Helton and Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll in my entrepreneurship class, “Taking the Leap,” I began to realize that working in sports may be a great fit for me. As a former high school athlete and current USC club field hockey player, I never realized how important sports were to both me and my family life. After hearing these coaches speak, I...

Interning as a graduate student can sometimes be a frustrating, but enlightening, experience. While studying full time in Annenberg’s Communication Management Master’s program, I also intern at BET (Black Entertainment Television), a subsidiary of Viacom. Though I’m truly grateful for these amazing opportunities, I sometimes contemplate the decision to postpone my entry into the workforce in...

In the spring of 2017, I was a Public Relations Intern for Whole Foods Market’s regional office in Glendale. I met my former boss through a connection at my previous summer internship at Burson-Marsteller. I spoke to my WFM boss for an informational interview in the fall of 2016, and she let me know that she was looking for an intern. This worked out perfectly since all seniors must secure an...