Finals week is slowly approaching once again. It seems like all the work is piling up all at once, but I know it’s my procrastination that’s to blame. This weekend I am taking off from all my usual activities to work on my final papers and all the work that will be due next week.
For my International Marketing class, I am excited about doing the final paper because I feel that I will be able to learn a lot from it as well as have fun at the same time. The professor went over a lot of information last class that I can use for the project as well as worked one on one with each student to help them out. The project that we have to do is create an International Marketing Plan for a product and company of our choice. The company I have chosen is Pepsi. I chose this company because it is a large company and I think can have a lot potential in different countries. Since I have always been interested in New Zealand, I want to advertise my product in that country. I have not yet come up with a product, but I hope that an idea will come to be soon!
In addition to the International Marketing Plan, I also have to write a paper on NuVim. NuVim is a health drink that boosts your immune system, as well as helps your muscles and bones. Our professor introduced us to this product by bringing in a speaker into the classroom that is responsible for the Lipton/Pepsi partnership as well as the inventor of NuVim. I already have some ideas on the ad posters I can make, but the essay part of the project I will work on this weekend.
The International Business Club is working hard on setting everything up for the Movie and Pizza Day. I wrote an e-mail to Mr Maher about posting the event on Blackboard, and he was very helpful to me in the process. We got our movie on hold for next week and as far as I know, the Multimedia Room has been booked for the day of the event. All I need to do now is get a hold of Patricia Tripp so that she can help me arrange the budget and make orders for the pizza and drinks. I am very excited in doing this event because everyone in the club has been working very hard to make the event successful. Our posters look great and everyone is excited!
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Zootopia!
I mentioned I would be attending the Z100 Zootopia concert in my past blogs, well last Friday I finally had the chance to go. I’m not sure why we had to be there so early, but the winner of the Z100 contest at school and I were advised that the limousine will be leaving the campus at 2pm when the main show did not start till 7pm and the doors did not open till 6pm. We arrived there at about 3pm and as we were pulling up, we missed one of the pre shows. I could not believe how much of a temperature change it was coming from Garret Mountain, NJ to Long Island NY. It was extremely windy, chilly, and it sprinkled some rain. Despite the bad weather, we didn’t let it get to us.
There were some booths set up around the pre show area which we visited that had samples and information on products from Zootopia sponsors, we even ran into the Berkeley College booth. I got really excited because I ran into my friend Monica that I met back in February when I went to the Leadership Retreat in Baltimore, Maryland. She goes to a different campus, so I had not seen her since the trip. The Berkeley College booth was giving away information about the school as well as giving away free lip balms. Thank goodness for that, because that day I forgot mine and my lips where chapped from the cold wind!
Walking around from booth to booth took up about an hour of our time, and then we went inside of the building to hide from the cold and kill two more hours. Luckily one of the booths were giving out In Touch magazines, so at least reading something made the time go a little faster. At 6pm the doors finally opened and we went to our seats. Even though our seats were on the upper level, we had a pretty good view of the stage. When the show started at 7 the place was not as filled as I thought it would be but I heard once the show started they gave away a lot of free tickets at the door.
The lineup consisted of Daughtry, Hillary Duff, Rhianna, Fergie, Maroon 5, Robin Thicke, Omarion, Katherine McPhee, Hinder, and Gym Class Heroes. My favorite performers were Hillary Duff and Rhianna since both of them currently have songs out that I really enjoy listening to. Each performer did about three songs which was nice. One of the ladies of the Z100 morning show had a birthday so Roin Thicke sang Happy Birthday to her which was very nice of him.
The show ended at 11pm, but we left around 10:30 since the limo driver called us to let us know that he was there to pick us up. We also wanted to leave a bit early so that we don’t run into the whole crowd coming out all at the same time in the end. Overall the show was really great, and we all had a great time. It was a nice experience and maybe I will do it again next year.
There were some booths set up around the pre show area which we visited that had samples and information on products from Zootopia sponsors, we even ran into the Berkeley College booth. I got really excited because I ran into my friend Monica that I met back in February when I went to the Leadership Retreat in Baltimore, Maryland. She goes to a different campus, so I had not seen her since the trip. The Berkeley College booth was giving away information about the school as well as giving away free lip balms. Thank goodness for that, because that day I forgot mine and my lips where chapped from the cold wind!
Walking around from booth to booth took up about an hour of our time, and then we went inside of the building to hide from the cold and kill two more hours. Luckily one of the booths were giving out In Touch magazines, so at least reading something made the time go a little faster. At 6pm the doors finally opened and we went to our seats. Even though our seats were on the upper level, we had a pretty good view of the stage. When the show started at 7 the place was not as filled as I thought it would be but I heard once the show started they gave away a lot of free tickets at the door.
The lineup consisted of Daughtry, Hillary Duff, Rhianna, Fergie, Maroon 5, Robin Thicke, Omarion, Katherine McPhee, Hinder, and Gym Class Heroes. My favorite performers were Hillary Duff and Rhianna since both of them currently have songs out that I really enjoy listening to. Each performer did about three songs which was nice. One of the ladies of the Z100 morning show had a birthday so Roin Thicke sang Happy Birthday to her which was very nice of him.
The show ended at 11pm, but we left around 10:30 since the limo driver called us to let us know that he was there to pick us up. We also wanted to leave a bit early so that we don’t run into the whole crowd coming out all at the same time in the end. Overall the show was really great, and we all had a great time. It was a nice experience and maybe I will do it again next year.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Summer Quarter is Coming
I have not yet had a chance to go make my summer schedule, but I’ll try to go today and get it done. I have class at 6, but if I get to school early, I may be able to get it done if the line isn’t too long. I usually like to get to school early on my night class days because it’s easier to find a parking spot, as well as review some things for other classes in the computer labs.
The international business club is doing well, and we’ll have a meeting tomorrow to speak about other activities that we can possibly do for the following quarter. We were thinking of doing a BBQ with the accounting club, but walking around the campus I noticed some other club that has already planned something along those lines. We could possibly do something like that in the summer or the fall, but for this quarter I don’t believe the idea is going to work. We still think that we’ll try and pull off our game show ideas, but because this will take a lot of planning and organizing, it may take a few weeks to accomplish that.
I’ve been thinking of possibly having the club meet more than just once a week so that planning things isn’t so hard by having to cram everything into one meeting. The only problem with meeting more than once a week would be to try and get everyone together since everyone has such different schedules. During activity period everyone is usually off from class and has a short break at the same time, therefore it’s not as hard to make that happen if scheduled around that time.
Recently I have been thinking of starting a Marketing Club. I’m not exactly sure how I would go about that yet, but I think it would be a good opportunity for many students in the Marketing major. In this club, we could help other clubs market their club to get students to join, make advertisements, help them create different marketing tactics and make their club successful.
In addition to helping out our students and other clubs, we could also market ourselves to local businesses and help them advertise for free. Most small businesses don’t have a marketing department, therefore getting free services from college students can be very beneficial to them. This would give marketing majors, as well as other people who would like to join the club, experience in the marketing field and the knowledge of how things work in the real world. I will have to find Mr. Maher and speak to him about this since it could be a great experience for me, and other Berkeley College students.
Finally, there are less than four days left until Zootopia, and I’m very excited! I have finally found out the name of the other winner of the two tickets, but I’m not sure if I know the person from just hearing their name. I’m waiting for an e-mail to let me know the time that we have to be at the school for the limo to pick us up. I hope everything works out well, and that we have a great time.
The international business club is doing well, and we’ll have a meeting tomorrow to speak about other activities that we can possibly do for the following quarter. We were thinking of doing a BBQ with the accounting club, but walking around the campus I noticed some other club that has already planned something along those lines. We could possibly do something like that in the summer or the fall, but for this quarter I don’t believe the idea is going to work. We still think that we’ll try and pull off our game show ideas, but because this will take a lot of planning and organizing, it may take a few weeks to accomplish that.
I’ve been thinking of possibly having the club meet more than just once a week so that planning things isn’t so hard by having to cram everything into one meeting. The only problem with meeting more than once a week would be to try and get everyone together since everyone has such different schedules. During activity period everyone is usually off from class and has a short break at the same time, therefore it’s not as hard to make that happen if scheduled around that time.
Recently I have been thinking of starting a Marketing Club. I’m not exactly sure how I would go about that yet, but I think it would be a good opportunity for many students in the Marketing major. In this club, we could help other clubs market their club to get students to join, make advertisements, help them create different marketing tactics and make their club successful.
In addition to helping out our students and other clubs, we could also market ourselves to local businesses and help them advertise for free. Most small businesses don’t have a marketing department, therefore getting free services from college students can be very beneficial to them. This would give marketing majors, as well as other people who would like to join the club, experience in the marketing field and the knowledge of how things work in the real world. I will have to find Mr. Maher and speak to him about this since it could be a great experience for me, and other Berkeley College students.
Finally, there are less than four days left until Zootopia, and I’m very excited! I have finally found out the name of the other winner of the two tickets, but I’m not sure if I know the person from just hearing their name. I’m waiting for an e-mail to let me know the time that we have to be at the school for the limo to pick us up. I hope everything works out well, and that we have a great time.
Friday, May 11, 2007
New Classes Already!
Well, that time has come again to select new classes for the upcoming summer quarter. Yesterday I went onto Blackboard and printed out the times and days of all the classes being offered next quarter. I’ve decided to take four classes over the summer because it fits well into my schedule. Once again I decided to take two night classes and two day classes. This will give me some free time to lay by the pool and relax before classes. I was hoping that I would be able to take some classes online but I found out that they are already all filled up! It seems like in the summer time there is less of a class selection. Now that I am getting closer to graduation, the classes that I need are becoming very specific, and soon it will become very hard to schedule classes.
We have finally got a date for our pizza and a movie day. It’s going to be on June 6th because all of the Wednesdays for this month are already taken up for different events. Last week I was unable to get to the meeting because I had to take care of a different event, and then I had to go see some people to take care of other things. Alex, the vice president went over with everyone what the game plan will be for the event and how we should run everything. Since not that many people showed up to the meeting today, I just spoke about the day we have as well as what we will be doing next week.
There was a bake sale being held on the campus this week. All the cookies and baked goods looked so nice and tasty. The club that was running the event had speakers outside and everyone was listening to music, enjoying the nice weather and relaxing on a small break between classes. It’s nice to see that the school can come together and create a very welcoming atmosphere.
On Thursday, in my Advertising and Promotion class we had a guest speaker. I called him Mr. Nuvim because he was the creator of the drink Nuvim as well as the person responsible for the Lipton Pepsi Cola partnership. I was surprised that our teacher was able to get him to come to speak to us since he is such a busy person. He spoke to us about the drink Nuvim which we have to do a paper on, due June 7th. I found the information he gave us very interesting because he did not only speak about the product, but different ways of marketing that he found interesting throughout his career. This information will not only be good to know in order to do my paper, but to also have something to refer back to as I start my own career.
We have finally got a date for our pizza and a movie day. It’s going to be on June 6th because all of the Wednesdays for this month are already taken up for different events. Last week I was unable to get to the meeting because I had to take care of a different event, and then I had to go see some people to take care of other things. Alex, the vice president went over with everyone what the game plan will be for the event and how we should run everything. Since not that many people showed up to the meeting today, I just spoke about the day we have as well as what we will be doing next week.
There was a bake sale being held on the campus this week. All the cookies and baked goods looked so nice and tasty. The club that was running the event had speakers outside and everyone was listening to music, enjoying the nice weather and relaxing on a small break between classes. It’s nice to see that the school can come together and create a very welcoming atmosphere.
On Thursday, in my Advertising and Promotion class we had a guest speaker. I called him Mr. Nuvim because he was the creator of the drink Nuvim as well as the person responsible for the Lipton Pepsi Cola partnership. I was surprised that our teacher was able to get him to come to speak to us since he is such a busy person. He spoke to us about the drink Nuvim which we have to do a paper on, due June 7th. I found the information he gave us very interesting because he did not only speak about the product, but different ways of marketing that he found interesting throughout his career. This information will not only be good to know in order to do my paper, but to also have something to refer back to as I start my own career.
Friday, May 4, 2007
Z100
I feel like week by week my days are getting busier. I have recently started substitute teaching since I’ve gained my sixty credits from Berkeley College. I was able to start earlier because Berkeley goes by quarters and not by semesters, giving me more credits faster. I got to go back to my old high school and the teachers are quite surprised to see me back so soon.
On Wednesday Z100 came to our school which was pretty interesting. They set up some speakers outside of the student center and played some music for the campus as well as gave away some stickers. They had a raffle going for two more tickets they were giving away to Zootopia. I was supposed to meet up with Ms. Tripp who works in Student Development, but after looking for her for a while, I was told that she wasn’t there that day. I was supposed to do something with her and the Z100 representatives then meet the other two winners so that I would know who I’m sharing the limousine with. I then tried to look for Mr. Maher to see if maybe he knew anything about my meeting with Ms. Tripp, but he didn’t.
I was unable to go to my International Business Club meeting this week, but I left instructions for Alex, the club’s vice president, instructions on what are important subjects to discuss. I asked her to make a game plan for the “pizza and a movie” day as well as discuss what country each person would like to research for our game show. We thought it would be creative and fun if we did research on the countries that we originated from. Our “International” club's membership this quarter is quite diverse, each of us is actually from a different country. I will find out better details about how the meeting went next week
On Wednesday Z100 came to our school which was pretty interesting. They set up some speakers outside of the student center and played some music for the campus as well as gave away some stickers. They had a raffle going for two more tickets they were giving away to Zootopia. I was supposed to meet up with Ms. Tripp who works in Student Development, but after looking for her for a while, I was told that she wasn’t there that day. I was supposed to do something with her and the Z100 representatives then meet the other two winners so that I would know who I’m sharing the limousine with. I then tried to look for Mr. Maher to see if maybe he knew anything about my meeting with Ms. Tripp, but he didn’t.
I was unable to go to my International Business Club meeting this week, but I left instructions for Alex, the club’s vice president, instructions on what are important subjects to discuss. I asked her to make a game plan for the “pizza and a movie” day as well as discuss what country each person would like to research for our game show. We thought it would be creative and fun if we did research on the countries that we originated from. Our “International” club's membership this quarter is quite diverse, each of us is actually from a different country. I will find out better details about how the meeting went next week
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Zootopia
It seems to me that the weeks in school go by so much faster ever since I started taking night classes. It felt like I barely had time to do anything before, but now the feeling is worse. I had an exam to take on Thursday which only took me sixteen minutes to complete and then I was able to go home. I like it when professors let us go after exams because it’s a nice way to relive stress and not waste time. My International Marketing class teacher was supposed to post the exam on Blackboard but he hasn’t done it yet. I hope that he has changed his mind because his exams are quite long and it would be difficult to cram and get them done by Tuesday. When I say long, I mean ten pages, single spaced assignments!
In the International Business Club we have decided that the event which we’ll organize for the school is pizza and a movie. Yesterday I filled out all the paperwork to hand in, but my only issue is I still to find a movie to show. I will have to run to the library sometime tomorrow to see if maybe the librarian can help me pick something out. They are usually very helpful when it comes to searching for something.
I recently found out something that’s very exciting and I’m all psyched about! The radio station Z100 will be coming to our school on Wednesday and giving away tickets to Zootopia, which is a very popular concert in the tri state area. Since I was asked to write about the event in my Blogs, I am one of the lucky people that will be going with one of my friends. I will have to ask the Vice President of the Club to cover for me this week so that I can attend this event and help out. Should be interesting and fun!
In the International Business Club we have decided that the event which we’ll organize for the school is pizza and a movie. Yesterday I filled out all the paperwork to hand in, but my only issue is I still to find a movie to show. I will have to run to the library sometime tomorrow to see if maybe the librarian can help me pick something out. They are usually very helpful when it comes to searching for something.
I recently found out something that’s very exciting and I’m all psyched about! The radio station Z100 will be coming to our school on Wednesday and giving away tickets to Zootopia, which is a very popular concert in the tri state area. Since I was asked to write about the event in my Blogs, I am one of the lucky people that will be going with one of my friends. I will have to ask the Vice President of the Club to cover for me this week so that I can attend this event and help out. Should be interesting and fun!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Events
The weather was looking nice for a couple of days but now we are back to rain. I was starting to enjoy walking through the campus and relaxing outside at the picnic tables between classes. I can’t believe the quarter is almost half way done with and before I know it, it’ll be time to do my schedule for the summer already.
Today was a very sad but meaningful day in the eyes of Berkeley College students because we had a memorial ceremony for the victims of the Virginia Tech School incident. A lot of people showed up for support which was very nice to see. They mentioned the names of all the students that lost their lives, and then we had a moment of silence for everyone affected by the tragedy. Following the moment of silence we had one of our students sing the song “Amazing Grace”.
On Tuesday I had a meeting with Ms.Tripp because she wanted to have a talk with me regarding the International Business Club. I let the club vice president know of the meeting but I could not find her in the Student Center where we were supposed to meet, so I went on my own. Ms.Tripp explained to me how every club needs to organize an event for the school on a specific day. I know we have had some events in the past few quarters but I was not sure if they were mandatory.
After the memorial ceremony I had to go to my club meeting today. I presented them with several ideas of what we can do as our mandatory event, and we decided upon showing a movie and providing pizza to the students. We still need to come up with a plan of how to keep the students in the room so they just don’t eat the pizza and then leave as they have done in the previous quarters. I hope that this event will help us bring in members. We have not yet decided on what specific movie we’ll be showing since the movie has to be educational but fun at the same time.
I’ve spoken to the accounting Club president, and we think that it would be a good idea to bring our clubs together to try and make an event as well. We were thinking of doing something along the lines of a BBQ for the school. Since we are both small clubs, we could join forces and work together as a team to achieve something. This can be a fun way for us to meet new people and learn about other clubs in the process.
Today was a very sad but meaningful day in the eyes of Berkeley College students because we had a memorial ceremony for the victims of the Virginia Tech School incident. A lot of people showed up for support which was very nice to see. They mentioned the names of all the students that lost their lives, and then we had a moment of silence for everyone affected by the tragedy. Following the moment of silence we had one of our students sing the song “Amazing Grace”.
On Tuesday I had a meeting with Ms.Tripp because she wanted to have a talk with me regarding the International Business Club. I let the club vice president know of the meeting but I could not find her in the Student Center where we were supposed to meet, so I went on my own. Ms.Tripp explained to me how every club needs to organize an event for the school on a specific day. I know we have had some events in the past few quarters but I was not sure if they were mandatory.
After the memorial ceremony I had to go to my club meeting today. I presented them with several ideas of what we can do as our mandatory event, and we decided upon showing a movie and providing pizza to the students. We still need to come up with a plan of how to keep the students in the room so they just don’t eat the pizza and then leave as they have done in the previous quarters. I hope that this event will help us bring in members. We have not yet decided on what specific movie we’ll be showing since the movie has to be educational but fun at the same time.
I’ve spoken to the accounting Club president, and we think that it would be a good idea to bring our clubs together to try and make an event as well. We were thinking of doing something along the lines of a BBQ for the school. Since we are both small clubs, we could join forces and work together as a team to achieve something. This can be a fun way for us to meet new people and learn about other clubs in the process.
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