{"id":1210,"date":"2013-09-09T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2013-09-09T00:44:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T04:44:23","slug":"kate-getting-your-hands-dirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2013\/09\/09\/kate-getting-your-hands-dirty\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate: Getting Your Hands Dirty"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Hi y\u2019all! I hope you all are excited to be in Boston and your first week went well.\u00a0 Since meeting my freshmen over the last couple weeks, I\u2019ve had a bunch of questions about how to get practical experience in your first year.\u00a0 As valuable as COM 101 and 201 are, I can understand wanting to get your hands on something in major sooner than later.\u00a0 So here are my three suggestions for getting involved right off the bat:<\/p>\n

Get involved in hands-on activity.<\/b> Whether its BUTV10<\/a>, WTBU Radio<\/a>, or The Daily Free Press<\/a>, COM offers so many groups where you can actually get your feet wet.\u00a0 At the first BUTV meeting (September 11 from 7-9pm in COM101 ) you\u2019ll get to hear from each Executive Producer about the different shows, time commitments, and shoots.\u00a0 For WTBU Radio, you can intern for a semester before starting your own show.\u00a0 All of these groups will teach how to use the equipment and give you invaluable experience.<\/p>\n

Join a professional organization. <\/b>I\u2019ve been a member of the Public Relations Student Society of America<\/a> since freshmen year and its been one of the most rewarding groups I’ve been involved with.\u00a0 They bring in fantastic speakers every week, take the group on agency tours, and put on a professional conference every February.\u00a0 For journalism students, there is the Society of Professional Journalists<\/a> and Ed2010<\/a>.\u00a0 Not only are they great for your resume, they also teach you things you probably won\u2019t learn elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Network, network, network. <\/b>In all communication industries, networking is incredibly important and it is never too early to start.\u00a0 In COM 101, Professor Vigil brings in great speakers and panelists.\u00a0 Introduce yourself to them and get their business card.\u00a0 Attend networking events and keep in touch with people you think could be important to you in the future.\u00a0 And lastly, network with your professors.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never met a professor who wouldn\u2019t go out of their way to help you at any time and is happy to get to know you.<\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t make it to the Ice Cream Social or Splash this past week, check on the Facebook\/Twitter and websites of the groups you\u2019re interested in getting involved with for information about their first meetings.\u00a0 Good luck with week two and be in touch with your COM Ambassador with any questions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi y\u2019all! I hope you all are excited to be in Boston and your first week went well.\u00a0 Since meeting my freshmen over the last couple weeks, I\u2019ve had a bunch of questions about how to get practical experience in your first year.\u00a0 As valuable as COM 101 and 201 are, I can understand wanting … Continue reading Kate: Getting Your Hands Dirty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,1613,4057,7277],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}