Tuesday June 21st, 2011

Today I worked on the Games By Location of the 2011-2012 Women's Basketball Media Guide. I got to North Carolina today! I'm gonna be there for awhile. This is every game Duke has ever played in the state of North Carolina- Every home game, every UNC game, Wake game, N.C. State game, UNC Asheville game, UNC Charlotte game, UNC Greensboro game, Eastern Carolina, Western Carolina, Davidson, etc. A whole heck of a lot of games. I got through November games today and already had 50 something games. Most other states don't even have 50 games period, let alone in the month of November. Art, the big boss, came in and gave me a break from the Media Guide, he had me proofread the statistics in the Football Media Guide. Then I got another break from the Media Guide later from Cook who had me create New Folders on the Y drive. One of a bunch of different hard drives on the computers in the office. Inside the 2010-2011 folder I created 108 folders, a folder for every page of the 2010-2011 Duke Yearbook. A yearbook that archives Duke Sports. So there was IFC-Kevin White Intro/Letter- which was the Inside Front Cover Intro/Letter from the Athletic Director, and then 2- Baseball, 3- Baseball, etc. It was four folders (pages) for every sport, and then folders at the end for Compliance, Student-Athlete Development, etc. That was real easy and a little break from my Women's Basketball Media Guide.

Monday June 20th, 2011- ESPN taping.

This morning I worked on the media guide some more. I got to the M's ( Maine, Mass., etc.), We ate lunch as us interns, outside on a bench. We talked about the afternoon, we were real excited and nervous for the taping of ESPN's difference makers: Paterno and Krzyzewski. Coach K and Joe Paterno were taping the show at Penn State and there was a live feed to Duke at the Telcom Building. The three of us SI interns, Chelsea a SI work study student, and an intern from ticketing were recruited by Zach who works in marketing and promotions. He is the one who was in charge of the whole event. He had recruited us a while ago, and today was the day! So this morning he came in SI and asked Zach and Kelsey to write questions under the categories family, leadership, excellence, and teaching, random, and questions for former players. We did and we emailed him the questions and he came back in about an hour later and told Zach he'd be asking his question on family, Kelsey would be asking her question on teaching and possibly her question for the former players and I would be asking my question on excellence, and possibly my question on teaching and my random question about Coach K breaking the record for all-time most wins. Well Zach ended up being the only one of us interns to get to ask a question. The way ESPN did the show, there was only one question from each school for each topic. That paired along with the fact that Coach K's answers were not exactly brief and JoePa's were about twice as long as Coach K's, made it pretty hard to get many people up to ask questions. But it was still really neat to see, and be part of, and I should definitely be able to be seen because they got crowd shots. The show is airing on June 30th @ 8 PM on ESPN and continues at 9 on ESPNU, so be sure to watch and/or record! After the filming was done we headed back to Cameron. Zach, our intern was kinda worried about getting back because Chelsea, the SI work study student had left. Clearly he underestimated my knowledge of campus, because I knew how to get back easily! lol.

Sunday June 19th, 2011

Today I went to church here.

I love church in the Duke Chapel, it is absolutely amazing. The Chaplin Sam Wells is an awesome speaker.

After church we went home and I had a grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwich, it was amazing, the peanut butter and jelly were all gooey and melted and the bread was toasty.

Then Danielle and I went to a coffeeshop to get some work done. I got a white hot chocolate that was so rich. I have to write weekly papers to get academic credit for my internship. I wrote my paper in about an hour and a half, including facebook and twitter breaks. I wish all papers were so easy!

After I finished my paper I went down to Vaguely Reminiscent this cute little store I love. It is tiny, but every inch is jam full of so much cute and random jewelry and gifts. I think I'm definitely going to do some birthday/christmas shopping done there before I leave.

Then we came home and chilled. We had tacos and rice for dinner. It was very yummy.

Then we watched the panama/el salvador game that went into a shootout. And then was the Miss USA pageant. Then I watched KUWTK and now it is time for bed.

I have a busy/exciting day tomorrow as we are filming a tv show for ESPN. Most of the show will be filmed at Penn State but there will be a live feed to Duke where they will show a bunch of us, in a room and we can ask questions. But.. I don't think I'm gonna ask a question.

Friday June 17th, 2011

Today I have officially been here for two weeks! CRAZY! today, as it was friday, was very relaxed. Most everyone was gone. Art was in Pennsylvania, Meredith was in Ohio, and Cook was in Vegas, and Blevins has been on vacation all but one day that I've been here. So it was just us interns, Jade, Ashley, and Pliz. I worked on the Game by Location Section of the media guide, and made it through Georgia. Zach from Marketing came over and chilled for most of the morning. ( we leave at noon on fridays). He was going to test a tshirt gun that he had fixed last week but somehow since he fixed it, it became unfixed. So that was a fail.

When it was about 12:10 us interns left for the day and Zach, the intern, gave me a ride to ninth street. I went to The Duck Shop, a shop on 9th street that has a bunch of Duke Apparel but since it's not affiliated with the college can't be called the Duke Shop. Then I walked into Vaguely Reminiscent, a cool little boutique that has cute hairpins, necklaces, bracelets, TIARAS, fun random gifts, etc. I always love checking it out. I then went back to The Duck Shop and bought a shirt, I couldn't decide between two shirts. I ended up getting a lacrosse shirt because I have a ton of basketball shirts but not a lacrosse shirt! Then I met ryan at a record store and we headed home. I had a french bread pizza and doritos for lunch and had a relaxing day at home.

At about four I walked down the street to this little baby park in Ryan and Danielle's neighborhood and swung for awhile. There was this little girl that was the most precious little girl I have ever seen. She came walking up to me while I was swinging and I had to stop not to hit her. She walked right up to me and I said hey, and she put her hands on my knees and tried to push me in the swing. She was precious, in her grandmother's words "she's never met a stranger in her life". It was adorable but her grandmother said it meant they have to be real careful because she truly will just walk up to anyone. On my walk home I called my mom and had a nice chat with her.

We had spaghetti and meatballs for supper and it was delicious. The meatballs were especially good. Then I just chilled and watched tv. It was a good day, and unbelievably it was the ending of my first two weeks.

Thursday June 16th, 2011

What did I do today? you guessed it. the Game by Date section of the media guide. but guess what? I finished it! four and a half days and nine pages later I finished. I was practically done around 11 but took a break and helped Chelsea, a work study student find pictures of field hockey all-americans and put them on a cd. then it was lunch time and Kelsey and I ate outside on a bench in front of Cameron. Then I went to the bookstore for a little bit and tried on a shirt I liked but decided against it and went back to work. I finished up the Game by Date section - it was amazing, then I realized i needed to add spaces in between each day and because of formatting it took a little while. But then I started the Game by Location section and got to Florida and then it was time to head home!

Wednesday June 15th, 2011

Today I got to work and started Kelsey, Zach and I talked for a minute and then Art came in and told us there was food upstairs if we wanted any. He asked me if I knew where Scharf Hall ( It's in the K Center) was and I said I did. So I showed Kelsey and Zach the way and we went over there and there were omelets and waffles being made, and a bunch of fruit and bagels. I just had some fruit and an amazing cinnamon crunch bagel. It was really neat and kind of random. We sat and ate for a little bit and talked and then went back downstairs and got to work. I continued working on the Game by Date section of the media guide and got a few more pages done. I made it though January and most of February today! I went with Kelsey down to the file room to put up some files of football players she had made. The file room is definitely one of a kind. It is a small rom down in the basement of Cameron full of file cabinets with clippings of every sport and athlete that has ever played at Duke. When we got back upstairs it was a quarter till five and so we worked for fifteen more minutes before calling it a day. Danielle has class on wednesday and so she picked me up at 5:30. My plan was to go the bookstore for a bit before I met her but it was closed so I was out of luck!

Tuesday June 14th,2011

Today I continued working on the Game by date section of the 2011-2012 Media Guide. It is a tedious and at times a daunting task. I had brought a french bread pizza for lunch yesterday and didn't eat it since I went to lunch with Kelsey on the Plaza. So i ate it today and it was very good. Okay so here's the deal I am an overthinker. I tend to overthink everything and I keep analyzing my experience. SO between senior year coming ever closer, and this internship, I am all too aware of the imminent arrival of my life in the Real World, in about 11 months. That is nothing. and I have way less than that to decide plans for next year. I have to start making decisions. I don't want to go to grad school, but that is definitely an option I need to consider. I had a conversation on facebook with a girl who interned here for a year. After she interned at Duke for a year, she went to Grad School at UGA for Sport Management and Policy, and worked as a grad assistant in the athletic department. But Kristina who was a year long intern here this past year, and whose last week was my first week, she interned here for a year after she graduated college and doesn't plan on going to Grad School. She has sent her resume to about 40 different schools looking for a job. That honestly sounds much more appealing to me, but then with the economy the way it is, I might should go to Grad School to help me get a full-time job.
And then there's the fact that with it being summer, although I am getting a great experience I am not getting the most ideal picture of how it would be to have this job. Since no games are going on in the summer, it is more there down time. Honestly I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with my life because while I am enjoying my internship, It is work, and so far I'm not sure if office life is for me. But then again it is not as much "office life" when sports are in season. I do love that it is very laid back but still professional environment. Get your work done and you're free to leave. I did enjoy writing the article for GoDuke.com and would definitely like to do more writing. Hopefully I can cover the NBA draft next week. well enough overthinking for one journal entry, but that's a little insight into my mind. lol