Frist Blog

My academic back ground is quite different then those of everybody else. I graduated high school in 2003 and I’m a senior in college now. One might wonder where did all the years go but I simply took two years off of school to try to receive a hockey scholarship from a college. I spent two years playing hockey before I enrolled into Manhattanville. It was not such a smooth transition from the two year layoff. My freshman year was a bit challenging to say the least. I haven’t read or done any school work for two or so years so I was quite difficult coming back into the academic world. The work became easier and I have proceeded to work toward a major in management and minor in communications with what I would say with minimal bumps in the road. As the years went on I became more confident in what I wanted to accomplish in my time at Manhattanville. Becoming a management major opened the doors to many opportunities that I would have never stumbled upon if I either didn’t choose this school or the major. Throughout my time between graduating high school and now I have a better understanding on what I really want to do with my life come May when I graduate college. I have always wanted to become an entrepreneur and work for my self and run my own company. Last summer I was proposed with an idea about an advertising/directory website that could help people navigate through certain towns and cities. I ran with it and now I have created one website and am in the process of creating another. This helped me learn valuable information on the steps and the work it takes to start and run a small business. This course fits into this by improving my ability to advertise and make it easier for the visitors to my site to understand more about the site and how it can help them. This course will also help me to develop flyers and posters or another advertisement to get traffic to my sites. The more traffic the more business will want to advertise on our site.