Conference was amazing this year. It was in a great city
(San Francisco) and the conference hotel was a nice venue. I got to hear some amazing speakers such as
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, and Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. I
also was able to hear sessions led by other chapters from around the country.
They gave great advice and I learned quite a bit from them.
Our chapter did one of these sessions and it was about
student-run firms. I felt we did an amazing job, and luckily other people
thought the same. I did have one goof up in my grammar and it ended up being
quite funny. Instead of saying “Be college kids” or “We are college kids,” I
decided to combine the two phrases and it came out “We be college kids” and I
had no idea I even said it until afterword. Awesome, way to go Jake. But it was
ok because the context it was used in made the phrase funny instead of a huge mistake.
Also, our PRSSA chapter president, Katie Hozan, and myself
helped our professors by presenting at their professional development session.
That was really cool because people who write the textbooks that Katie and I
use were at the session!
I love to network and I met a host of new people from across
the country who are PR nerds just like me. At one point I was sitting in
between a guy from the University of Alabama and girl from the University of
Oregon. Only at National Conference would this happen.
To top it all off I was able to bond with some of the other
members of my chapter and we made some great memories along the way!
Conference is an amazing experience, and if you are on the
fence about if you ever go to one I would strongly encourage you to go. You’ll
learn a lot, make new friends and become closer with your chapter, and you
really can’t ask for more than that.
I be a college kid,
Jake
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