-: The way I got into event planning was through
a professor who I loved here at Rolands, John Barcia
who taught some International Affairs classes at Rolands.
And his classes were so hard to get into that you
could practically only get into them if you were
a junior or a senior because they would fill up so quickly.
And you'd have priority if you were later in the stages.
But if you had somehow lucked into getting into one class
and you were a great student,
he would push you into the other classes which was great.
Those classes, because they were International affairs
were full of international students.
So I have friends all over the world now
through those classes.
But more than that, through that, I showed more of
an interest in what he was teaching and what he was doing
and I ended up getting an internship with him
at the Global Perspectives office in another institution
where he was working as well.
And in that internship, that office would throw events,
co curricular events, bringing in global speakers
from around the world to talk about really interesting
subjects and so my role in that was to help set up
those events and I was just an event assistant.
Well first I was an intern.
Then I came on as an event assistant.
And then it moved forward from there
and ended up being a full time job.
And that's the only reason I got into events
was because of that and so it was actually
taking the international affairs side
and then it somehow found the events side of things.