What I did this summer

Simply put, my summer was amazing. I finally got out of Chapel Hill for more than a weekend (I had been here for 18 months straight doing work and school). And more important to me, I was out to have an adventure.

I originally started out chronicling my summer in an online web-log (blog) called Washington Adventure. Unfortunately, I stopped writing weekly after only a few short weeks. This is where I run into a little problem: I cant possibly remember everything I did because I did so much.

This summer I interned with DATELINE NBC in Washington, D.C. (No, I didnt put the name in all caps to draw attention to it. That is actually the correct way to write it.) As I said before, it was amazing.

At DL I had the chance to work directly with Emmy-award-winning producers on their projects and I even had the chance to develop projects on my own for air.

So the work was nice, but the things that I had access to were even better. I visited the Supreme Court and sat in the press gallery during session, I visited the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (home of the crash-test dummy), I met Ron Reagan (jr.), I watched Meet the Press, I sat on the set of TODAY, I interviewed a deputy assistant
director of the FBI ... the list goes on.

Rivaling my fun for eleven weeks at DL was my one-week vacation during which I attended the Democratic National Convention and worked for ABC World News Tonight. Lets just say that I now have a ton of pictures with famous people.

Ok, so did going to UNC help me get this internship? Well, I dont think that UNC listed on my resume got me that second look. But I do think that UNC has provided me with the opportunity to have experiences that made me qualified for this internship.

The creative juices have dried up. Send me an email if you think I'll have an answer to your question. Have fun in these upcoming months looking for a college.

Hope to see you on campus.

adam