Category Archive: Summer 2014

WHAT DO “CHEERS” AND EMA HAVE IN COMMON?

By Jackie McLemore ♦ Have you ever worked in a place where everybody knows your name?  No, the popular show “Cheers” was not revived just for me.  However, my experience at Eric Mower + Associates… Continue reading

A New Chapter  

By Kendall Jackson It all happened so quickly. Within a month, I went from being a stressed and anxious college senior, scrambling to finish finals, to becoming a recent graduate, living 650 miles… Continue reading

Uncharted Territory

By Shaylyn Livingston ♦ Diversity is imperative to living a fruitful life.  That’s a sentence I’ve lived my life by having spent semesters in both Ireland and Italy.  Studying abroad has a reputation… Continue reading

Buffalo??? Buffalo!

By Casidhe Holland ♦ “The city is not for me. No, sir. And Buffalo? Ha, not a chance! I will never live there, or like it there, or go there of my own… Continue reading

Google: A Search for Love

By Caroline Gallalee ♦ Google has always been a part of my life. We’ve spent many years together, and I suspect we’ll have many more. When I’m with Google everything seems to make… Continue reading

Deciphering Patterns through Data

By Kate Sheehan ♦ Despite my passion for words, I have always had a fundamental love of numbers. From childhood I adored reading novels of the fantastical and the unknown, but the joy of… Continue reading

Unknown Territory

By Nora Gleason ♠ When I traveled to China, I knew what clothes I needed in my suitcase, which compartment in my carry-on holds my passport and boarding pass, and of course, the airport… Continue reading

Tell Lemony Snicket to Take a Hike with His Series of Unfortunate Events

By Samantha Harrington ♦ The night before my first summer internship was a lot like the night before I competed in the Olympics. Okay, I’m not an Olympian, but I’m assuming the emotions… Continue reading

Expect the Unexpected

By Summer Schneider ♦ “Your first assignment is to help decorate this plastic duck to fight racism.” Not exactly your average first day at work… I took the duck, sat it down in my… Continue reading

AN EMA PERSPECTIVE: THE ENGLISH MAJOR

By Emily Tanner  ♦  Before starting my internship at Eric Mower + Associates I was super nervous. Being an English major, I was afraid that I was going to be entering an environment… Continue reading

The World is Your Classroom

By Christina Allison ♠ Learning never stops. It is a continuous cycle that occurs no matter where somebody is. Although this appears to be a simple concept, it’s one that I had difficulty grasping.… Continue reading

19 Things That Happened Before My Summer Internship

By Matt Adams ♣ I’ve never applied for an internship before and many of my friends haven’t either, so I didn’t know what to expect. An internship is something coveted by many, envied… Continue reading

3 Golden Rules for Being an Awesome Intern

By Nicole Deming ♥ There is no one definitive tip for internships, no holy grail for being the best intern or optimizing your resume. No one tells you on the first day of… Continue reading

When you think of advertising, what comes to mind first?

By Kristen Cavalleri  ♣ According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, advertising is the action of calling something to the attention of the public, especially by paid announcements. Okay, so that’s probably what most people… Continue reading

Work with Insight to prep the Affinity brief by EOD for Ideation for a new business pitch. Say What?

By Ryan Frantzis ♦ There’s this general expectation that, as a new hire or intern, you’ll have to learn the jargon of the industry and office where you’re working.  Because of that, your professors… Continue reading