For my media participation project I wrote a blog post for the
Naviance website, a product owned by Hobsons, the company that I interned with
for the past two summers. Hobsons is an education solution company that sells
products aimed to better academic performance, and help with career planning. I worked under the marketing department and
one of my objectives was to write a blog series on the topic of education to be
posted on the company blog.
For my post I wrote about the pressure of Advance Placement
courses and the benefits and drawbacks that the class brings. I used a magazine
from my hometown where it told the stories of high school students and opinions
from professionals including facts about academic stress and how the pressure
of taken AP courses in the DC-Metro are significantly higher. This fact alone made me want to discuss it
further in my post, as the school district and students the students they
interviewed were very familiar to me, as many were former peers. I felt like my
story mirrored those in the article and I wanted to be able to share my opinion
on the subject.
To set up the opportunity I contacted my manager at Hobsons,
who was excited to hear from me, and gave me the go ahead to write the post. Like I had as an intern, I had no solid deadline, but I still worked diligently to get it done. I turned
it in about a week or two later to be reviewed and I am waiting for any final
adjustments before it gets put on the calendar to be posted on the blog.
Writing an education blog series is interesting because many
times academic opinion pieces are not from students themselves. My view is
unique because I actually experienced taking AP classes, and I am apart of the
success stories. While I have other
interests, I love writing about education as I believe a students opinion can
be vital not only for the leaders in education but for other students too,
because they can learn from prior experience or get advice.
http://www.naviance.com/blog/author/brooke-giles#.VG4ARpPF_Xw
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