Marissa's Blog

We have finally made it to dead week, which is a very unrealistic name for this week. I have been busier than ever this week finishing up assignments and starting to study for finals. However, I'm happy the semester is coming to an end, because this has been a busy one. Monday, I had two classes in the morning and went to work in the afternoon for about two hours. I wrote two articles, one about a men's basketball player who was named OAC Athlete of the Week and one about a men's soccer player who was named First Team Academic All-America. One of my favorite parts of my job is getting to write articles like this about student-athletes and all they have achieved. After work, my roommate and I made pasta with shrimp, tomatoes and cream cheese, which was really good. Monday night, I went over to my friend's dorm to do homework while my roommate was in class. Tuesday, I had one class in the morning then a DCBA Peer Mentor meeting with all the other mentors. It was a reflect...

This weekend, I was able to go home for one last relaxing weekend before dead week and finals week began. One of my classes was cancelled on Friday, so I decided to skip my other class and go home a day early. I had class until 4:15 on Thursday and I left right after it was over. My younger brother had a basketball game, so I went straight to his game. They ended up losing but it was still nice to watch him play. Friday, I slept in until 10:30 a.m. which was so nice. For lunch, I went out to eat with my parents at one of our favorite restaurants, Mom's Diner. I ordered a club sub and a cup of chicken rivel soup and they were both very good. When I got back home, I did laundry that I had brought from my dorm because I did not want to do it earlier in the week. Friday night my parents and I went to my high school's girls' basketball game. It was a close game but they also ended up losing. Saturday morning, I slept in again. I then picked up my friend and we went to our favori...

Over the course of this semester, my classmates and I completed an online simulation of a social media internship for our Principles of Social Media class. While it was a time-consuming assignment, it was a very fun and unique experience where I learned a lot. Throughout the simternship, we created organic social media posts, paid social media posts and scheduled influencers for the brand Buhi. The first content we created was organic social media posts, which is content that is free to post, although certain types of media cost money. The content you posted could be anything from pictures, videos or memes to user generated content. Acting as the social media manager, I had to work with a budget to create posts on different social media platforms and decide what days and times to post them. At times, it took a while to come up with captions, or just figure out what I should post in general, but I kept getting better as the simternship went on. The next content that I learned to create ...

I feel like I have been going nonstop since the start of the semester, so Thanksgiving break was a much-needed time to relax and not worry about classes or work for a while! Over the break, I was able to travel to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina with my friend, Kennedy, and her dad, Tim, to visit Tim's aunt and uncle, Joyce and Jerry. I also went to Hilton Head with her over spring break last semester, so it was nice to go back! Tuesday, we spent the whole day driving. We left at 6 a.m. and didn't get to their house until 9 p.m. because there was a lot of traffic. When we got there, Joyce had made us chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese, so we caught up with them while we were eating. Since we woke up early that morning and had spent all day in the car, I slept so good that night and didn't wake up until 10:30 Wednesday morning. Wednesday after we got ready, we rode their bikes to Duck Donuts, which has the best donuts I've ever had. I'm not a huge fan of donut...