Ronnie Camille

On Monday, we had a visit from our every own NCCU Eagle Ronnie Camille, to talk to us about life after graduation. He told us about his involvement with organizations on campus, how he jumped on every opportunity possible in order for him to get where he is today. He told us that it isn't easy and that the job market right now is frozen, that people aren't really getting hired. He talked about how the Duke Lacrosse Case really helped him next work, but he provided coverage.He talked about how pulling cord really helped him network, and that really helped him meet people. Because they always need help pulling cord. Ronnie now works in the Medical and Health unit of ABC as a free lancer. Him coming to talk to us made me see that real students can get real jobs.

Today: 66* Slightly Cloudy Low chance of rain.

On Wednesday, we had a guest visit from NBC17's Chief Meteorologist Wes Hohenstein. I really enjoyed his visit and I could tell my classmates did too. We actually interacted with him, we asked questions about everything but interestingly enough all we wanted to know about what the day in the life of the weather guy :D. Like Mr. Chambers, Wes started his freshman year of college majoring in Pre-med and quickly realized that was not the path he wanted to take. He really spoke volumes to us when he told us that he sent tapes all over the world of him doing the weather in order to get a job. Like our other guest's he stressed the importance of INTERNSHIPS! Because of the internships and his hard work, listens heard his weather report on 17 different radio stations, but this was before he moved to North Carolina. Wes did not just talk about his path into television, but he also wanted to inform us about the DTV Transition. The Government ended up pushing back the date to June 12, 2009 because millions of people we not ready for the switch. Wes said that North Carolina alone had 400,000 people who were not ready, and would have woken up to snow on their televisions. I personally I do not think that I would want to be a meteorologist, but its nice to know all the glam we see on television is not the real deal, Wes has to create his own dialogue, he own weather charts, all his research is done by him, not to mention. Update the web page every few hours, and attempt to post 3 blogs a week. Not to mention the fact his sleeping pattern sucks, he gets up way too early for me.

CapStrat

I truly enjoyed our visit from our CapStrat visitors. Tiffany Lawerance and Louise Beasley Warenda, brought to my attention how many different job's there are, just stuff I never knew about they opened up my eyes even wider then were and told me about all the different positions that CapStrat has. Louise even told me to email her so I can come in a shadow her or some interns, and see all the positions at CapStrat. :D I was really interested in the fact that Tiffany and Louise both did not major in communications and how they grew to love it and how they are continuing to learn everyday. They seem like really energetic, fun spirited, and work oriented people which is the type of enviroment I was to be in. People like myself. I can't wait for Mr. Chamber's next guest speaker(s).