Goodbye

This will be the last post regarding out wonderful PR107 class. Although senioritis set in early for me this year i learned more about PR then ever before. My internship allowed get me a huge confidence boost as i saw and experienced first hand some of the work PR professional do day to day. Id like to take this time to talk about the school of comm and all that it has been doing to help PR students move on to the real world. I actually got a meeting with Dean Oppenheim and spoke to him about my future plans.He recomended that i pursue a masters degree in the field of communications. You see im not sure im ready to get a good employee at a PR firm not do i feel my skills are developed enough to stand out in a company's eyes. Isnt that the point. To set yourself apart from everyone else so you have a better chance of moving up the PR ladder. Well that what i want to do and i figure more schooling will equal more skills. Ive been considering doing the masters program for speech communication to develop my verbal skills more. I just want to build myself to education and experience instead of just throwing myself into a job and hoping for the best. Im a pessimist who does believe in the whole work hard and you will be rewarded idea. I believe that you must bring something new and original to the table and use PR as a stepping stone to bigger better things. PR gives you such great skills and connections to utilize in any way you can imagine. Why not give yourself a head start by getting a masters degree to show off to an employee and at the same time use knowledge of what you learned from the masters program to be innovative in the field. As much as we all try to be different we end up in the same places(entry level positions). So make sure that your next step goes beyond being a good employee. You have to figure out ways to be the best at what you do without the company you work for as well.