The Internship part 2

So things are looking up for me. I have recently been talking to a person whom I highly admire, and they have made me realize that things could be worse and I can survive...since talking to this person things have looked up. Well I did lose my wallet...but everything else is good.

I have my first internship interview in two days! I am so excited. Well this isn't technically my first internship I did one previously with the City and well...I just hope that if I get this one I will be able to learn some real design skills, and not just be a fill in for the office designer (which they didn't have.) This is also a company that has done packaging design, which I have come to realize is something I really like to do, despite avoiding it for the majority of my college years. Really I think it may be something I really end up doing...that is unless I can find a magazine that will take me, that too would be awesome.

In other news this is my last week of freedom. I have to find something fun to do before classes start.

Portfolio: Catcher in the Rye/Blue Beat Studio

Photograph was taken by Pierre Amerlynck on sxc.hu

This was part of my portfolio, and part of the one I showed at preview. However some people didn't like it. They Disliked the image. So I have finally redone it over completely.


In other news I found a really great logo I did two years ago that I forgot to add to portfolio for preview. really would have liked to have added this.

Again with the failing.

I focused so much on one Preview and ended up failing everything. Doesn't that just beat all. Well I didn't exactly fail everything. I just didn't do so well. I made a D and a C in two senior classes. Especially the one for my personal identity system. I just could never come up with anything that worked for me.

I tried trying to figure out who I am first. And well the result is my current website, in other words the C project. I am so dissapointed in myself. I remember the last day of class feeling like I wanted to change the entire thing. But my professor said "If you change the whole thing now, you will fail." So no changes were made and I made a C+.

A week after the class is done I decide to start redoing the system, starting with the mark, after maybe 10 sketches I get something I like. And from then on everything looks awesome. I hate when this happens to me, everything looks like shit at some point and time and then....I see the blinding light and it all comes to me.

This sucks.

Look for my new website coming soon at designsbyshauna.com

Opprotunities Missed

Searching for an internship today...well not all day, I spent some time at IKEA with my friend, however I got right to it when I got back to the house. Except for well now.

Anywhoo since the person who is supposed to be sending me a listing of local internships/jobs is not moving as fast as I would like for her to I have taken the matter into my own hands...I always like to say if you want something done right, do it yourself. Well I searched around to a few places, and finally stumbled upon the internship opprotunity of my dreams.

*Que lights and angelic music*
A magazine internship.

It was like a dream come true, because my real dream is to work for a magazine. However Atlanta is not really the place for magazines that is lovely ol' New York New York and personally that is a little too cold for me at the moment. Not to mention far since I have to finish my last quarter of school. I began to get all excited though at this posting, I even began to write the letter and email....and In the middle of writing the cover letter. I think "wait when was the deadline for the internship..." August 15... almost a month ago.

So much for my magazine dreams possibly being fulfilled.

The Internship

Only taking one class next quarter will make it so I have to pay money out of pocket, if I take two classes I don't. No it doesn't really make sense, but this does mean I need to find another class to take, fortunately my school offers an internship class. Therefore as of Tuesday this week I begin my adventure of trying to find an internship.

The Journey Begins

I have sent out my first resume and cover letter (which I hate writing) to my first potential employer. In all the classes I have taken that advise you about what to do when writing a cover letter they tell you to go to the website, research the company, so you know what they are looking for. With my school they provide all that information for you in the little summary they send you. However, what should one do when the website provides no information? just a spot for you to sign up for something...yeah helpful.

So in addition to cutting out a full paragraph, I send off the cover letter and resume and as soon I click send and it begins its electronic journey to the required box...and I realize I spelled the companies name wrong. I put viacom, and not viacube. I check the cover letter...and I did it there too. So I have to resend the information which I am sure she has already recived

...I don't they will be hiring me.

Post-preview cleanup

2 hours.

It took me two hours of sitting in my college's finicial aid office to finally see someone. Of course if I had just passed preview like normal I would not have had to been in that office for two hours waiting on someone to finish with another person only to find she had not been busy for 45 minutes. While in there I learn that for some reason the school systems is saying I have 7 more classes to take, because it decided to delete around 5 of my classes, and of course to get taht straightened out I have to run from floor to floor trying to find one person whom (is strangely my teacher of two classes) whom of course will always be either at lunch, unavailable, or in a "meeting". Which means I still am not going to have this whole thing settled until Thursday or Friday.

I want my hour and 15 minutes back.