I asked senior Communication Studies major Teresa Garcia to let us follow her around for the first day of school, and she was nice enough to agree (I’m 3 for 3 on requests for these posts, whoo whoo!). So, here it is, A Day in the Life of Teresa: January 24, 2011.
Senior Communication Studies major Teresa Garcia
8:20 Turn the alarm off and get out of bed
8:30 Brush my teeth and get in the shower
8:55 Finally decide on wardrobe and I get dressed
9:15 Finish blow drying my hair (key morning prep step I share with Teresa, missing from Ian and Rashad’s posts… lucky guys!)
9:20 Turn on laptop to answer emails and check Facebook
9:55 Head down to the caf to pick up a bagel and croissant for work…. Long line for the first day of school.
10:15 Hop on the 43 to the Marina
10:35 Waiting for my next bus
11:05 The Golden Gate Transit finally arrives. Get on.
11:35 Arrive at my stop in Sausalito. Walk to the office.
11:45 Arrive at my internship as an editorial intern for a magazine. On Mondays, I intern in Sausalito for Smart Meetings magazine, a print and online trade publication for meeting planners. We do a lot of travel/destination pieces as well as informational articles for meeting professionals. I’m their editorial intern. My basic duties include fact-checking, helping out with their social media (blog, Facebook, Twitter), corresponding with freelancers and writing short pieces for the magazine. I’ve been with them since August.
11:50 Settling in: answering emails, meeting newly hired editors.
12:05 Interview a UK-based food architect for a piece I’m writing. It was hard scheduling an interview with an 8-hour time difference!
12:35 Finish interview and start writing my article.
2:00 450 words later, done!
2:10 Quick snack break.
2:35 Email art editor regarding requested images for article.
2:40 Hand write a few thank-you cards to a few guys I interviewed for this month’s issue.
3:00 Start on a folder of fact-checking for the March issue.
3:30 Editorial board meeting. I have two pieces in the March issue! (Wow! Congrats, Teresa!)
4:00 Out the door to catch my bus.
4:15 Board the bus back to school.
4:50 Back on campus
5:00 Gourmet dinner at the caf consisting of chicken, rice, and broccoli.
6:00 Just finished coordinating a Skype date with a friend from Chicago.
6:15 Off to my first class of the semester, “Sexuality and Catholic Tradition.”
8:00 Getting some post-class tea and a sandwich from the caf.
9:00 Unwinding with a bit of TV surfing.
And that’s only Teresa’s Monday! On Wednesdays and Fridays, she interns at HarperOne publishers, an imprint of HarperCollins. “We publish religious, spiritual, and self-help books (everything from Thomas Merton and C.S. Lewis to Deepak Chopra and the Dalai Lama). I’m their editorial intern as well. I help draft memos, write rejection letters, return manuscripts, research permissions, etc. I’ve just started this month.”
Thanks, Teresa, for participating! Sounds like you have a busy semester ahead! Teresa is also an RA and a fellow blogger! Aren’t these posts fun? Seriously, if you are enjoying them half as much as I am, it means that you LOVE them! Interested in participating (you know you want to) contact me at edoohan@usfca.edu.
Yay Teresa! Good luck with that busy schedule this semester!
🙂 sounds like all the comms majors have alot going on this semester!