Learn the career paths of peers

Guest speakers were another component to our class "getting Linked."

Students who were ahead of the curb (working @ internships), Gavin Shelton & Apo Bordin came in to speak about what they took out of the class and where they were now.

Gavin, a media intern at AKQA showed us a grinning smile when he talked about the hard work & long hours he is putting in and balanced it out with the fact that he is building his network at this very moment and that we should be too. He traced back the reason he got there in the first place which boils down to pure persistence and potential. You could smell Gavin's passion when he was talking and I know he will go far. We met in our first semester and did a killer marketing project on Yerba Mate Tea. That was 5 years ago. Today the stuff is bottled in every convenient store!

Apo, shared a dynamic opposite to Gavin's career path. Like several students, he is an advertising major who does not want to get into advertising. He landed a gig working as a social media intern with a start up company called tripping.com. He has such a laid back and European charm in the way he gives his presentations, you can't help but smile. He is honest and wants to find meaning in his work, a very respectful personality trait.