This week is completely focused on planning future convocations. I have been assigned to email multiple people for the convocations upcoming in the spring and to look up public speakers for the fall of next year. This is what I joined the internship for but I am realizing that I don't really like planning convocations.
I originally wanted to do event planning as a career when I came into college but as I've grown up and taken classes about many different topics, I realized that I really don't want to pursue that career. Therefore, this is not my favorite part of my internship. I looked over several public speaker agencies websites and every one is full of people who no one knows. This is an issue because we need to find people for the fall who have easily recognizable names. They also have to have an interesting topic.
In regards to the spring convocations, which are relatively already planned, I have been assigned to email all of the guest speakers and confirm their attendance. This is hard for me to do because I don't know who the people are or what they are about. They also don't know who I am, so I don't know if they will respond to me.
I am going to have to do the emailing and the planing in order to get through the internship but I won't like it. Fortunately, after this year I will never have to event plan ever again. I will miss working the events and meeting all of the extremely interesting people though. Again, on the bright side, I will be joining the U.S. Airforce and will be meeting a completely different rack of interesting people. Hopefully, this experience will be helpful in my future endeavors. If not, then it is at least a wonderful experience and will lead to awesome stories when I'm older.
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