It’s Time to Reel it In

We are officially in week 13 of the semester, making next week Thanksgiving break, followed by two more weeks of class! This semester has flown by so quickly yet so slowly at the same time. August to the end of September went by in the blink of an eye. October to now has felt fairly slow, but with lots to do. The past two weeks have gone fairly quickly with more evening tasks and more hours at work. 

So far, the last two weeks of class are going to look a little bit like: paper, presentation or pitch over the paper and thankfully only one final. I’m currently in three classes and capstone. One class is principles of finance which only has a final exam to wrap up the semester. My other two classes are in public relations: issues in PR has a reflection paper on our CliftonStrengths with a five-minute presentation; while social media strategies and campaigns- the class I write these blogs for- will be writing out a planbook for our client and doing a pitch presentation on what we think they should do on social media moving forward. It’s safe to say that the Dicke College of Business gives you plenty of presentation experience. For capstone, we are putting together an integrated marketing communications plan presentation, then combining all previous deliverable parts into a planbook-like paper for our client: Marathon Petroleum Corporation. 

Weirdly, I am not stressed about the three papers and presentations. I have definitely had a worse semester than this one in terms of end of semester projects. The only piece that makes this semester any different is the inclusion of clients for my groups to pitch to. The fact that I am so close to being done, and the confidence that comes from basically being done with my degree, is what is getting me through that. Cheers to two-ish more weeks and two more classes!