Getting this internship has been a crazy rollercoaster and a lot of hoops to jump through, but now that everything has settled into place and I’ve secured my spot as an intern at the Stetson marketing office I’m excited to get started and learn more about my future career options if I decide to minor in marketing.

Since I wasn’t originally planning to take on an internship in my first semester here at Stetson, I’ll have to admit that I’m considerably underprepared and don’t have a great idea of what I’m getting myself into. Despite this and my impending fear of being unable to meet these standards with my lack of experience, I’ve been able to convince myself that it’s okay that I haven’t done a lot in the field of marketing. After all, the entire reasoning for an internship is to gain experience and learn the ropes of the field with hands-on projects under the guide of someone with more experience.

My first hands-on task given to me by my supervisor, was to go around campus taking student life pictures with the camera he entrusted me with for the day. He said the goal of it was to asses my skill level and how I can improve over-all during my internship. I agree that this will benefit me, but it was insanely difficult to take student life pictures when there was nothing going on around campus at the time and the most exciting thing I found to shoot was a group of kids reading. I think I found it difficult since my main area of photography is events and candid photos that show energy, excitement, and emotion.

Even so, I think it did push me to try to make something out of nothing and that I learned more about my own personal photography style. I haven’t given him the photos yet, but I’m hoping my low energy shots are enough for the assignment.