{"id":1487,"date":"2018-02-21T18:49:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2018-02-21T18:49:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T23:49:32","slug":"well-what-a-frightening-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/well-what-a-frightening-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Well! What a Frightening Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, let me just start this blog off by saying I wasn\u2019t expecting that!!! The past two weeks I\u2019ve been trying to set up good times to interview two professors for Stetson\u2019s 60th<\/sup> Anniversary of the SPREE and Honor\u2019s program. As usual everyone is busy, and I\u2019ve learned to adjust as needed. To be honest the rush and anticipation of this event has made me so excited. I\u2019ve researched both programs, and prepared questions, but nothing makes an experience than physical engagement.<\/p>\n

This past Monday Stetson hosted an Open House for the Honors Program. Prospective students and parents were taken on a tour of the school and engaged with the faculty. Well, being that marketing is covering a story on the Honors program I followed them around to capture B roll. \u00a0Due to my work schedule I was not able to participate that morning, but the latter part of the day yielded some frightful excitement. Casually going about the tour, shaking hands, introducing myself, and capturing others interacting, I heard someone say, \u201cis that a snake in the pillow case in his back pocket?\u201d I paused, looked around, and quietly said \u201cwhat?\u201d See I can do animals, but I am terrified of snakes. It is a struggle for me to watch them on television let alone be in same surroundings as them. Anyway, after I heard that I paid close attention to the Professors back pocket.\u00a0 Before then I walked closely to him, capturing footage as he talked about a few science courses at Stetson. I honestly would\u2019ve been ok if no one had mentioned the creepy crawler in the first place. Nevertheless, I kept my distance until we walked outside, and from there I knew what was getting ready to happen. I calmly freaked out but, shockingly I got close enough to capture footage on the snake. I kept telling myself \u201cPhaedra you got this!\u201d \u201cYou need this moment on camera, GET IT!\u201d And I did just that! I wasn\u2019t expecting to face my fears this week, I was just there to capture b-roll. We all had the opportunity to hold it, but I wasn\u2019t ready for that yet, so I got what I needed and stepped back.<\/p>\n

You know as I stated before, I wasn\u2019t expecting to face a fear this week, but I\u2019m glad I did. This brought back excitement to my internship. It\u2019s so easy to show up for things because you have too, but when it becomes an experience that helps you cross a personal milestone, you that it\u2019s worth it. I went home that day proud that I didn\u2019t allow my fear to hold me back from an amazing opportunity. Sometimes we fail because we don\u2019t try, so I just wanted to do something I wouldn\u2019t have done before. To see passion and pride in the faculty\u2019s eyes as they explained programs brought me joy. \u00a0I know they sacrifice a lot of time so that students can experience community. The fact that professors know your name matters, and I hope all who choose to attend Stetson sees that.<\/p>\n

Overall, the tour was amazing, and it was exciting to see prospective students, parents, and faculty engage and rave about Stetson University.<\/p>\n

This week is one I will never forget, and I hope the remainder of the semester brings on more excitement! (but I\u2019m good on the snakes for now!)<\/p>\n

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Well, let me just start this blog off by saying I wasn\u2019t expecting that!!! The past two weeks I\u2019ve been trying to set up good times to interview two professors for Stetson\u2019s 60th Anniversary of the SPREE and Honor\u2019s program. As usual everyone is busy, and I\u2019ve learned to adjust as needed. To be honest … Continue reading Well! What a Frightening Surprise!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}