now remember my little rant about how excited i was about all the spring weather last week?! well the next day it snowed! haha and then today i got stuck in the rain with no jacket, and had to walk to the barn parking lot! i was soaked!!!!! anywho, these weeks just keep flying by! i cant believe it! and at the end of next week, spring break starts! woohoo!
now, how i ended up at buffalo state college. well, seeing as i didn’t plan on going here, i didnt even know where to start. so i went online and found the communication department’s website and contacted ron smith. i told him about my dilema between UB and Buff State and he referred me to Dr. Silverman. She had just come to Buff State from UB and she could answer all of my questions. And she did! She’s absolutley wonderful, and seeing as she was new to everything too, it was much less intimidating. I was accepted to Buff State and now I had to register for classes. So both Ron and Dr. Silverman met with me to explain to me how Degree Navigator worked as well as Sabre. They helped me pick my classes and got me started here. It was so nice to meet with faculty who went out of their way like that! I really felt welcome! I knew I had made the right choice by coming to Buff State!
I also moved on campus. Let me tell you, living in Tower 4 was an experience. I really liked living on my own, but some of my suite mates did not have as much of an outgoing personality as myself, if you know what i mean! haha. but none the less, i liked where i stayed! i ate a lot of ramen last year. i am kind of domestically challenged, and the kitchen on the 10th floor was disgusting! none the less, i dont like to eat ramen anymore! haha
rain, rain go away!
March 22, 2007
happy st. patty’s day! (a day early!)
March 16, 2007
top o’ the morning to you! i’m pretty excited for this weekend! i love st. pattys day. contrary to popular belief, i am not irish. i have red hair and freckles and my name is kelly, but i am not irish! haha. weird, huh? but it will be fun, i am going out with all my freinds saturday and we are all going to the parade sunday too! i hope to see you all there!!!!!!
and spring is in the air and i love it! the snow is melting and the trees have buds on them and it smells like spring! ahhh a time for new, fresh beginnings. its refreshing! and this semester is just flying by! i have one more semester left here! i have to start looking for an internship.
FYI: THE CDC WILL HELP YOU FIND ONE. AND PUT TOGETHER YOUR RESUME. YOU SHOULD GO THERE. and then, after you graduate, they will help you find a job…..all becuase you went to buffalo state. imagine that! there are also career builiding workshops that will help you in the “real world” so check them out, and out your resume on ORCA.
back to this journey….
its my final semester at ECC, and i have to start looking for a 4 yr. school. i really did have my heart set on UB. But I had some research to do. John (Harrigan) took my video editing class to UB to see a tour of the facilities there. He genuinley cared about where we were heading in our future. I think that is a great quality to have in a professor. I must say, I loved UB. the campus, the feeling, it was big and had soooo much to offer. so i went to the open house there too, and i met with people from the communication department. Now, like i said, I want to get into PR. they offered a certificate program to get into PR. (where at Buff State, i can earn a DEGREE in PR AND ADVERTISING.) i found at UB there were not a lot of full time faculty in the department, and that hands-on work wasn’t what they were in to. (seeing as they are a research university that makes sense.) but i felt i needed hands on work, and full-time faculty with experience that got to know their students. for me, that makes all the difference in my education. so, i had to keep looking…..and guess what i found….BUFF STATE.
TGIF!
March 09, 2007
ahhh yes i looooooovvvve fridays! another long week is over! and now i can go party to be quite honest! work was super crazy today and i must say i waited on 3 bearded ladies today at wegmans. JUST SAYING! and it is very springlike today and i love it! people are buying all kinds of spring flowers and the snow is melting and its just one step closer to me being able to wear my flip flops again! yay! little things make me happy, cant you tell? next week i have to write a paper about iraq and afghanistan, which is going to lead to some prettttty heated discussions in my communication and society class next week! people just really need to wake and up and start to think about what is going on in the world. i cant stress that enough.
so we are still at ECC in my little diddy (about jack and diane….sorry) One of my required classes was introduction to mass media, and we covered the basics. we touched on every peice of the media. oh yeah, this is with my teacher, Gina Christiano. She used to work for an NBC affiliate in roch-cha-cha. one of our projects included a Public Relations Crisis Communications presentation. When we did the unit on PR, it really sparked my interest. I could deal with people on a regular basis and not one day would be the same. I had proved with my papers that I was a strong writer. so i really felt it was a perfect fit. PR is all about persuasion and an image. and to me, it seems kind of superficial. BUT i think if you are making a difference (and a good one!) then you are doing something pretty great. So that is why I became interested in community relations. persuasion is a very powerful tool that people dont always seem to recognize! i also took a writing for media class with Gina. we had to write scripts for broadcast and tv (which didnt interest me!) but writing press releases and putting together media kits was what i really enjoyed doing. so i felt that public relations would be a step in the right direction for me after i graduated from ECC. and let me tell you, writing for the newspaper and writing for PR are very different. PR writing has a purpose, to persuade and inform. It is objective, where as journalism is not. (unless you are watching FOX news, but whatever) None the less, i think i had finally found my niche!
“the ides of march are upon us…..”
March 01, 2007
i successfully went to all of my classes and turned in all of my homework this week! i would like to consider that an accomplishment because last, well, not so much! on a “positive” note, my car started making this awful, terrible noise when it is idling today. i am very scared to see what is wrong with it! this has to get me through this year….and then i’ll buy a new car. until then, this 95’ saturn really has to pull through! haha
so back to my ECC days. At the end of my first year of college, I decided that I wanted to switch majors. So I made the treck to ECC South and met with John Harrigan. He was great. I finally had an advisor who knew what he was talking about, and actually cared about what I was interested in. So he gave me the right paperwork and got the ball rolling. Now, John, when I first met him, came off as a bit eccentric. And he was in class too. But, he was, the best professor I have had in college to date. But let me tell you a little bit about ECC South. ALL THE BUILIDINGS ARE CONNECTED. which is amazing. BUFF STATE…..HINT HINT. And I actually felt like I was in a college setting. My core COM classes there taught me so much more than theories. John was my professor for 4 of my classes while I was there. Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Vision and Sound. Communication Theory and Video Post Production. I have to say, that if I took any of those theory classes anywhere else, I would have been bored to death. Every single student that entered the lecture hall was inspired. Truly. To look inside themselves and think about what being said and relate it to their own lives. He used metaphors for each of his classes to relate it to kind of a journey and he incorporated music and lyrics to each class lecture. I really can’t describe it, but there are other Buff State students that know exactly what I mean. John inspired each of us to reach for our goals and let nothing stand in our way of them, and really get know ourselves. I saved all my notes just because. While taking his classes, I knew this what exactly where I belonged. It wasn’t until I had some classes with GIna Christiano that I got turned onto Public Relations……
(its time for grey’s anatomy! yay!)
—Kelly
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