Welcome!

Dear Reader,

Hello and welcome to my blog! With this blog I hope to give you an insight into who I am and a glimpse of my goals and aspirations. If you are looking to potentially hire me as an intern, I hope that this blog will give you an idea of how I will benefit your organization.

I graduated from Ridge High School in 2006, at the top 15 percent of my class. I was also very involved in our schools National Honors Society. I am currently a Junior at The College of New Jersey, part of the class of 2010. I am a double major in Communication Studies and Italian Studies. I self-designed my own Italian major to encourage my passion for the language and culture. I just returned from a six month (January 2010-June 2010) study abroad program in Siena, Italy at L'Universita' per Stranieri di Siena. I have returned fluent in Italian and with a in-depth knowledge of the culture.

At The College of New Jersey , I am the Vice President of Lambda Pi Eta, the Communication Studies honor society. LPH holds many events for communication studies students, such as internship panels and job fairs. I also work for the college as a conversation hour leader of Italian 101 and 102. During the fall semester I worked in an Independent Study with Dr. John Pollock, a Communication Studies professor here at TCNJ , as his Public Relations associate to publicize his Health Communication program. Together with two fellow students, our goal was to generate more of an interest in the Health Communication Concentration that TCNJ offers. This independent study is a off-shoot of my Public Relation's plan from my PR class during the spring 2008 semester. To put our plan in motion we began a club, The Public Health Communication Club, of which I am now President, and have encouraged students from all disciplines to become involved. We also put together a speaker's series, with our first speaker Dr. David Oshinsky, a pulitzer prize winner, who came to speak about his novel "Polio: An American Story."

After college, I am interested in attending graduate school for either Public Relations or Social Marketing and Health Campaigns.

With my passion for Public Relation's and Italian, I hope to one day work for a company in which I can be both the PR agent and the liaison for international business.

This is just a quick look at my interests and some of the work I have done thus far in college. The posts that follow include more information about my interests and some of the work that I have done! Thank you for taking the time to read through my blog!

Sincerely,

Megan