In just one night I found out what I great senior year of college I was going to have. The amazing night involved great food, motivational speaking, and amazing musical talent. To add on to the wonderful experience that I am about to share with you, I get college credits to do this every week.
Before I get into what was so amazing, let me tell you a little about what I do. I am currently enrolled for an internship on campus working on our convocations. As a convocation intern, I help to plan the convocations along with one of my professors and another student. They can be religious services, motivational speakers, musically influential groups, movies, and many, many more things. Together, Dr. Pierson, Whitney and I had been working on getting a very interesting woman to come to our campus.
It was a thursday night when Lady Gaga's Harpist, Rashida Jolley, came to campus! She was so interesting. I had been recruiting students for a little over a week to come and eat dinner with her and get to know her before she went on stage. When she arrived, Dr. Pierson, Whitney and I met her and her friend Mike outside and brought them into our auditorium. They thought the school was beautiful. In short, She tech checked and tuned her harp and then we had dinner with her, along with several other students. Then she did her convocation, and we finished with a reception so students who didn't go to the dinner could meet her as well.
Although, I'd love to give a play by play of the night, I am intending this blog to be more of a reflection of the night. In that case, I will say that the convocation was extremely inspiring because as a young woman she was told she wasn't going to get through college due to epilepsy. She went on to prove her family and the doctor's wrong and graduated from college. She also went to the Miss America pageant four times before finally winning. I thought this was a great convocation to have to start off the year because it told many of our freshman that life will be hard and you might not be perfect at everything but you can succeed if you try and try and try again.
