Powerhouse?
What do you think? All us Reid Group Interns sat around a table for lunch
and came to the conclusion that our experience in New York should’ve been a
reality show. I mean it writes itself! Afterwards, we decided to give each
other nicknames for whatever reason, lol, I mean, nobody, besides the
characters on Jersey Shore, has nicknames for their reality show! Whatevs, I’ll
take it!
Today was pretty interesting, I had
my orientation for NBCUniversal and honestly, it felt like somebody punched me
in my back and I lost my breath for a minute. Maybe it’s a delayed reaction to
realizing that I attend an HBCU or the fact that I’ve been bubbled around black
people for the past couple of day’s, but when I got to that room, all I could
see were white faces.
In a room of over 200 interns, only
8 of them were black and 3 of them worked for thegrio.com. It was terrible on
one end, but it was good on another, or at least, that’s how I chose to look at
it. I was also pleased to see that one of us worked for the Oxygen network.
Long story short, while it made me feel a little uneasy, I felt pretty honored
at the same time.
On
another note, I met some cool people today as usual, but one of the highlights
for me was the fact that I met some amazing entertainment journalist! You know
entertainment’s my thing, so to see Lola Ogunnaike and Alicia Quarles. I’ve
definitely seen Alicia a number of times on E! News and I’ve seen Lola a number
of times as well.
I
asked away and got my answers. It was cool. We also met BeBe Winans. I really
wanted him to sing me a song, but I knew he was a little occupied! Lol
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