ABC….ONE, TWO, THREE.

Thanks to TWC, we have the opportunity to visit different locations and people that we normally would not be able to. TWC Career Services hosts Brown Bag Lunches. These lunches are during the week (on Fridays mostly) and during lunch time..duh! They're open to all TWC interns and the best part…FREE. Interns love free anything! Anyways, I went to the Brown Bag Lunch at ABC News Studios. We met with TWC Alum Kimberly Berryman. She is a Production Coordinator at ABC and also helps coordinate the internship program, writes for ABCNews.com and books guests for various programs. She told us that her official title should be “professional floater.” Whatever needs to be done at anytime, Kimberly is usually the one to do it. She told us a story about Inauguration Day. The crew needed help putting on wires on the ground to broadcast live, so Kimberly went at 3 o’clock in the morning to help set up. I don’t want to imagine how cold it was. She did her job, and her reward? To go to one of the Inaugural balls which the president attended. She said it was totally worth freezing. Yah, I would guess that.

Kimberly with TWC interns

Kimberly spoke about her experience with TWC when she was an intern in 2006. She gave us some advice on things she wishes she would have known when she was an intern. She told us to get out of our desks, follow people around and network. Another piece of advice which I have been hearing from everyone is to write thank you letters. She showed us a cabinet of past interns, and she told us that out of the hundreds of interns that have interned at ABC- there are about five Thank You letters. So I am guessing they are kind of important. We also took a tour of the studios. I felt like a kid at a candy store. It’s funny, because they make it look so much bigger on TV. They use special tricks to make it look as if the studio has hundreds of people when actually there are about 10 people. Kimberly said the ABC Studios in New York are a lot bigger, because that is headquarters.

Me @ ABC

Kimberly said she really did not know she wanted to work in media while she was in school, and she tried a couple of different majors. She interned at a radio station, and thought she would like to be on-air. But as she learned more, she fell in love with production. Her goal is to be a producer working at ABC headquarters in New York. I was thinking about my own experiences at school. I always wanted to be a sports reporter, and I do not think that will ever change. What I am struggling with is print vs. broadcast. I love to write and be in front of the camera…why not do both? We shall see. “Lo que está pa'ti nadie te lo quita.”

Leli’s recommendation for the week: WRITE THANK YOU LETTERS! I will be writing one as soon as I am done here.

Until next time, Ciao.