Throughout my time in high school and my first two years at the Ohio State University, I have gained a wide array of knowledge and skills through professional experience. My first internship was as a high school student, working at a local public radio station, assisting in their marketing, community, outreach, as well as their live music performances. This internship taught me how to work in an office, something that I take for granted today, but at the time, was an entirely foreign and new experience for me. At the same time, I also learned some of the basics of marketing and musical performance, such as identifying target audiences, doing research, and how to get audiences interested in upcoming performances.
At my next internship location, MH Eye Care, I learned some more hard skills, such as search engine optimization (SEO), data analysis, logistics management, and other basic marketing/operations related skills. In learning these, I was able to begin putting some of the very concepts I learned the previous year in the classroom into practice. This provided a unique opportunity for me to see some of my early college education apply in a work setting, giving me the perspective of how valuable my education truly is. Going forward, I hope to use these skills to build on new, unique skills that will help me develop into a true asset. Doing this, and capitalizing on opportunities that arise during my time at OSU, will help me to end up in the career that I have passion for.