Who Do You Think You Are? Mrs. Big stuff?

Who am I is a question that definitely needs to be addressed. I found myself being easily able to do blog posts for other classes that were about readings, but writing something personal? Uh oh.

As you can guess, I am a student at Hunter College. 20 years old. A woman. After those categorizations is where the definition of who I am gets a little murky.

I am a work in progress. 

I have lived in every borough except Staten Island and I have lived in three different states. I have lived with several different family members only some time of which included my parents, and I have gone to countless different schools. I worked as a model and an actress for a lot of my childhood and did actually pretty okay. I think that is where my love of media and advertising came from. I was in them! But now I really want to make them. I did not know for sure what I wanted to study at Hunter when I first applied but in sophomore year I realized (after taking 180) that media was the way to go. What is more interesting than a field that is constantly changing and reinventing itself? I can relate to that constant change. And I can relate to the field's eccentricity and liveliness.

I have loved art since an early age and have done a lot of hand drawn work. Right now I am in the process of learning Illustrator and Photoshop. I want to eventually get a job in advertising that will put those skills to use. I should probably start with an internship though, right? The past two summers I have interned for a travel journalist and a newly developed fashion website called Shopperseeks (check it out)! Both not totally what I want to do but hey, experience is experience. Where I really want to be is working at an advertising agency. I plan to do a study abroad next summer in Tokyo, and am trying to get an internship lined up there. Hopefully the definition of myself will become clearer once I am doing what I am really passionate about. It already becomes clearer every day when I am sitting in media classes or working on learning Adobe software.

Working hard or hardly working?

The last thing I will mention- and something that (even when I don't want it to) really does define me- is my job. I have worked at Coffee Shop in Union Square part time for the last four years and I still love it. It has become a second home. Everyone there is a friend and even though work gets tough during tourist season, the place is great. If u want a bite to eat or a cocktail sometime stop by and ask for me!