Jay Soo’s Journal Entry 1

Jay Soo

9/11/13

ADV 4900-E299

My name is Jian Cong Soo, Jay Soo for short. This is my senior year in NYCCT, and I will be graduating next spring. I’ve been an Advertising Design major since the start; at first I couldn’t tell the difference between Communication Design and Advertising, because the students take the same classes together. It wasn’t until my junior year that I realized my major is leaning towards conceptualizing and marketing techniques that make campaigns successful.

Ever since I started making campaigns in classes, I experienced working with teams and the focus on visual details shifted to overall concepts and presentations. It was strange at first. However, as I worked more I grew to like advertising a lot and I definitely got better at it.

If I have to list one of my strengths, it would be luck. Last semester I encountered a professor I had from previous years; he offered me an internship at his office. At the time I didn’t have the class, and when I tried to contact him via email, it was in vain. It may have been fate that brought us together once again last Tuesday, when I came to school for a night class. He offered it to me once again and I made sure to get his contact info. I contacted him as soon as I got home. I got a phone call on Friday that week to meet at his office. I wasn’t sure if it was an interview, but I brought several of my work samples as he requested, on the following Monday.

I have to admit, that I felt a little nervous because I wanted to be confident with my work, but it was the first time I really showed them in an interview. My professor just looked at my work and we talked about them; at the end he asked for my schedule and we worked out the days when I could work. The company is called Image/Visual Communications at 16 Court Street. It was a huge relief for me, and that’s my story of my first internship.