The end is Here (May 10-14)

The end of the semester means the end of all housing fall 2010 – spring 2010 contracts and leases. During this time busy time for operations, we are focused on strategically planning for the next school year. This week I'm working on the freshman move-in guide for incoming freshman coming in the fall. I am using pictures to include in the booklet to show what campus living is all about. It's our job to communicate to incoming students all the amenities H&F has to offer residents.

Hours Worked:20

Fall 2010 (May 3-7)

The donation flyers are printed and posted. It's a good feeling to see your work located through out the residence halls. This week I have started placing photo into our freshman move in guide. Professional photos of student life in OU housing taken by Shevaun Williams is the photo source for the booklet. Also, I worked on the presentation of The Laughing Tomato menu which will be sent to the food services department. I notice a few writing errors when shaping the publication. I talked to Lauren about the errors since I didn't make the menu. After taking PR writing and publications, I'm more aware of smaller details as proofread my work. I don't caught every error but my writing has definitely improved.

Hours Worked: 20

Get to class in a minute when you live on campus! (April 19-23)

On Thursday morning, those who were scheduled to work passed out the juice boxes just south of Lindsey St. We wanted to provide students with juice on their way to class as well as remind students to complete their contract for fall. We choose minute maid juice boxes to handout since it didn't violate H&F contract with Coca-cola. Last week, we attached the reminders to each juice box. I enjoyed being outside on such a pretty day and interacting with students excited to get an unexpected free juice box. This was our push to remind busy students to think about where home will be for them next semester.


hours worked: 20

donate your unwanted items! (week of April 19-23)

This week in the intern office I was given the task to design a end of the year donation flyer. My goal was to inform student that donation will be collected in designated locations in each residence hall. This gives students the opportunity to donate any unwanted items The donation would be distributed locally to those in need. Each center had a custom flyer to show where the donation location was in that particular building. I worked in InDesign to pull the whole

Hours Worked: 20

Coke floats! April 12-16

On Wednesday, we made coke floats next to the Cate Center to promote the Route 66 Meal taking place that evening. We were grateful coke zero provided cases of cokes for the floats so we were only responsible for the ice cream cups etc. Fortunately, we picked the perfect day to put on this event because the weather was perfect.

This was our fun little way to help food services get the word out about their "Special Meals" held weekly. Our goal was to build students awareness and as result increase overall attendance to the special meal. The special meals originated to add new foods to the menu during these dinners. Since the renovation of Couch Restaurants, a WIDE variety of food is now available everyday to customers and we find that students don't know or look forward to the meals anymore. Hopefully, spreading the word while handing out FREE coke floats helped increase the desired awareness and attendance.
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Through out the week, I worked on H&F Social Responsibility Fair flyer which will be on April 22, 2010. The fair will display the actions and precautions H&F takes to be social responsible. Also, the intern team in preparing for another promo event to encourage students to live on campus next school year. We'll be handing out Minute Maid juice boxes with the tagline "Get to class in a minute when you live on campus" attached to each.

Hours Worked: 20 hrs

March 22-26

On March 24-26, prospective transfer students came to OU's Transfer Student Days. These students were able to learn more about the university, enroll in classes and make arrangements for housing in the fall. We were able to set up an informational table in Buchanan Hall, which was one of the hot spot locations for visiting students and their families. Aaron and I had housing information, free T-shirts, cups and more to give out. Also the CAC Housing Fair took place in the Student Union on Friday. Apartment complexes could pay to have a display table in the Union during the fair. The theme for the H&F informational table was Goldie locks and the 3 bears (helping residents finding housing thats jussst right for them). The interns put together a backdrop of a window with red and while checkered curtains to go with the theme of the table.

Hours Worked: 20 hrs

SPRING BREAK March 15-19

SPRING BREAK

Filed, organized and labeled for the operations side of H&F on Monday and Tuesday.

worked:12 hrs

Quick tips March 8-12

Designed Quick Tip to be placed in the residence hall's evaluators.

Helped other interns with various projects.

Hours Worked:20

table tents Feb. 15-22

The week was spent creating a table tent for the "Live the Legend" spring 2010 campaign. The campaign style consist of 5 message which we want to convey through our publications. Table tents are read at dining tables south of Lindsey Street.

MAIN GOAL: raise awareness of re-application week for housing to retain current residents

Hours Worked :20

Wayfinders

Feb. 8-12

Last fall, Housing and Food Services installed Wayfinders in each of the towers. Wayfinders are huge touch flat screen TV with tons of information discussing different aspects of the university. Anyone can look up staff contact information to campus dining nutrition facts. It is an exciting way to connect with the students using new technology. Also, visitors can pull up a campus map or even useful information for signing up for housing.

Each month, we post pictures of current residence on the Wayfinder so students can associate themselves with part of housing and food services. I have been busy taking photos of residents in couch restaurants, cate center, study lounges and other high traffic areas around the residence halls. A waiver of consent form is given to each student photographed so we can legally use these photographs for housing and food services purposes.

Next time, I will definitely utilize some tutorials on taking photos for better results.


worked: 20 hours

Campaign time

The time has come to start producing publications for the Housing and Food Services Spring Re-app week for 2010-2011 school year. From Feb.22 to March 5, current residents will have the opportunity to apply for Traditions without paying the $30 application fee. In the marketing department, it is our job to spread the word of all the benefits living on campus gives students. Our theme for this campaign will be "LIVE THE LEGEND. LIVE ON CAMPUS." I have been working on the table tents for the campaign which will go on the tables in couch restaurants.

worked: 20 hours

Time management

It's still early in the semester and I'm already starting to feel the high demand for my upper-division PR classes: writing, publications and research. I knew this semester I would have to dedicate most of my free time working to excel in my classes. For this reason, I set aside time on Tuesdays from 1:30-5:00 to work on assignments, read, and study. My classes, internship and student assistant position are all top priority. I'm learning how to manage my time during the week and take advantage of the weekend to get things done for the following week.

This week brought plenty of bad weather which equaled no Thursday and Friday class. It is amazing how much work I accomplished for the following week. Plus, I got to relax and take in all the changes the semester has in store for me.

Monday through Wednesday, I continued to make the finishing touches on the Sandwich of the Day fliers.

IT was able to connect my laptop to the office printer making life so much easier. The little things DO make a difference.

Hours Worked: 15

new semester. New position!

The first week of the semester brought a world of changes: new schedule, new classes, new books and a new position as a PAID marketing and pr intern! After a semester as a junior intern, I am now officially working at a job where I'm utilizing my degree! I discovered the good news on January 22, 2010, my 22nd birthday. Applying and interviewing for a new position is always a learning experience, but fortunately I made the cut. It helped that I had the opportunity to get to know the staff and understand the department. Also, my one year milestone for working in H&F main office will be the last week in January. My work experience with H&F main office and intern office has been such a great experience due to the amazing staff!

In the intern office, I continued to work with InDesign to fix minor details on the Special Catering Fliers. I was assigned a new project for Food Services. I created a publication to inform customers of the Sandwich of the Day at Dot's Deli in Couch Restaurants. I complete the project at my office hours and during some spare time in the evenings. Lauren and Aaron both agreed it was ready to be submitted to the client. Unfortunately, the client does not always see eye to eye on the publications the department creates. Therefore, I recreated a new template that would stand out more for the deli. Aaron gave me some design advise that might be more appeal to the client. Once the new template was created, I customized 5 fliers for each sandwich of the day. It's important to be patient and satisfy the client while still using skills and techniques to reach the desired public.

Hours Worked: 15

Learning the Basics ( January 4, 2010 - January 15, 2010)

The Christmas break was just what I need to shift my focus away from papers, tests and quizzes. I spent most of my break working as a Student Assistant in the H&F main office. It made me realize how excited I am to finish my degree and become financially independent. During my time off, I worked on publications for Special Events Catering to get more familiar with InDesign, the main program used to create publications. It took patience and time to understand how to operate simple tasks on the complex software. I worked with Riley, senior intern and law student, to assist me with design techniques and advice. Although I bought Adobe InDesign CS4 from the IT store, it was not operating correctly on my MacBook the whole fall semester. Ryan Trevino, IT specialist, was able to diagnose the problem over the break which allowed me to finally use my laptop to create publications. For the rest of the break, I was able to spend my evenings working on projects such as the Special Event Catering fliers and, most importantly, developing publication skills and techniques.

Hours Worked: 20

Inside Edition

Public Relations is one major that does not get enough credit for its required hard work and dedication. Last semester, I was enrolled in my intro level classes for Public Relations and began gaining experience by interning with the Markering and PR Department for OU Housing and Food Service. My first semester with the department gave me an insider look on the tedious work that goes into each publication. I've excepeted that each skill and technique can be learned through practice and research. I started my internship wanting to know how to do EVERYTHING related to PR. However, I quickly realized I had to start somewhere; even if it was at the very beginning. InDesign was a whole new world to me and not knowing how to do the basics was frustrating. I didn't want to bug my fellow intern or supervisor with an overload of questions, but after time I realizaed the only way I was going to learn is to ask questions. Now entering the second semester of my internship, I come with a better understanding of what is expected of me. I know everything is not going to be perfect the first time. I reach out to the Markert/PR Specialist Supervisor, Lauren Royston, Assistant Supervisior, Aaron Lindley, and my fellow experienced interns for advice, InDesign lessons or even a second opinion.

hours worked:20