Visualize Tap. Tap. Tap. You can feel the divots of the ball rub against your stick as you dribble down the field. You hold the stick tightly in your hands as you pull past defenders, one at a time. Seeing each opponent as an obstacle on the way to your goal, success is within your …
Freshly showered after a long day at the beach, you plop down on your bed with your sun kissed skin against your cool, cotton sheets. After hours of soaking up the sun and enjoying funnel cake and ice cream with your friends, you pick up your phone to check what you’ve missed on Instagram. …
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What is a Social Media Director? There are so many things you can do with a degree in Communication Studies. It can range from Public Relations to Marketing! However, how about doing something you love and wouldn’t mind doing on a daily basis as you get paid for it. Social Media Directors hold an important title …
It started off. My story about college after baby. Going into my Junior year of college, I was very excited to witness how close I was to the finish line. Just one more year, and I will be a graduate, an Alumnae from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. It is now, September 2015, and I remember …
Becoming an Event Planner Choosing a career path to enter can be a stressful, yet exciting time in one’s life. There are thousands of options, and each option comes with positives and negatives within the field. Event planning is a wonderful and rewarding career path to enter. It comes with responsibilities, like any other chosen …
College is known as the best four years of your life. No one really prepares you for how much stress and anxiety college can cause you as well. Moving away from home, living with strangers, getting a part-time job or an internship, and balancing classes on top of that. No wonder mental health has become …
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Over the past couple of years, social media has taken over most people’s lives. It has become more and more possible to know where your friends and family are always, what the weather will be like in ten days, or what Justin Bieber is doing every moment of the day. It has become a part …
The time of year to apply for internships has arrived! With the summer only 3-months away and West Chester University’s annual Job and Career fair coming up this week, it seemed fitting to present some real internship opportunities for our com students. As every COM student knows, having a degree in Communications gives you …
This is a note for all of the COM underclassmen from a Senior: start a blog. Sorry if that came across as dramatic, but I am being serious! I am currently in the job market and something I have learned quickly is how it important it is to have tangible examples of your writing skills …
What if I told you that you actually have two resumes? During your time spent at West Chester University, your professors and advisors will give you amazing advice to strengthen your resume. However, in the 2020 job market, employers look at much more than just your on-paper resume – especially for a communications-related occupation. Through …
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Get Organized Before I made the official transition into college in 2016, my mom spoke some of the most important words of advice I have ever received into my life. We were knee-deep into dorm decorating and organizing when she turned to me and said, “it is much easier to be organized than it is …
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When I first started college, I was stubborn, didn’t change my mind, and not the greatest of students. I started my college experience off as a music elective major. Throughout that time, I convinced myself that music was the one thing I wanted to focus on and turn into a career. So, as one …
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Moving Away For my whole life, I lived in a town that I knew inside out . I had friends that I had known for as long as I could remember and always had a place to sleep and when I needed it. Then, as we all knew the day would come, I started applying …
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With graduation just a couple weeks away, I find myself feeling nostalgic of my final year of college. My senior year has been so bittersweet, but especially my final semester. I look back fondly at the memories I have made and sad for this time coming to an end. I consider myself very lucky with …
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As busy college students, we often partake in food on the go amongst other wasteful habits just to make our crazy lives easier. It’s understandable that with our work filled anxious lives that we take the easy way out from time to time- but it’s important to realize the impact we are making and the …
