I started my internship in the Pre-Law Advising Office a few weeks ago. Since then, I have been working on a few things while also giving a portion of my time to DGS. So far, I have shadowed two of the pre-law advisors in a few appointments which gave me a glimpse into how their advising compares to DGS advising. From my brief experiences with Career Services, it appears as if pre-law advising is similar to career advising. I also have been to staff meetings for both Pre-Law and DGS, which has been a great introduction to hearing about what different resources pre-law brings to students. Since I know nothing about law school, I feel like I am behind in the learning curve, so I have done some reading on law school and admissions information. I have done a considerable amount of research to determine how best so market pre-law services on social media. I tried polling students on the pre-law facebook page and I have read a lot about blogging, tweeting, and facebooking, but unfortunately, I found little relevant, scholarly literature on best practices for social media within education and more specifically student affairs.
I also have been given reigns of social media for DGS. I created a twitter page and have taken over Facebook. I also have created a webtools calendar and newsfeed so I will begin to post to those soon. I have attended a few meetings regarding a strategy for DGS marketing. Since these strategies are new, we know it could be a slow moving process. I also learned how to use the software that updates the DGS lobby TV (which also has a learning curve).
I also looked into the literature regarding pre-law advising. I was a little upset to find that there is not much about best practices in the field. The literature I did find will be used for my academic plan.
So far, I have interned for 38 hours the past 3 weeks. I start my full time job on May 1st, so I need to average more than 10 hours per week.
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