Semester Report

Over the course of the past ten weeks I have gained a vast amount of knowledge and have had the opportunity to grow my business knowledge with one of the nation’s most well respected companies. Although my time with the Kroger Company has been brief, the experiences I have gained are invaluable to growth of my career path in business. Through the internship program I have been able to gain an understanding of both day to day operations of an individual store and the big picture of division operations in the Delta office. Combining these two experiences

My experience in the University Dining Services at Cal Poly Pomona has greatly enhanced my career prospects. Originally, my choice to work on campus was made solely on my need for funds. I never expected to gain so much insight and networking connections out of my on campus job. I choose to work at Innovation Brew Works on campus this year because of the opportunity to work at a business that embodies a family friendly atmosphere and serves hand crafted food and beverages. Ever since I was a child, these characteristics in a business have been imperative to me.

Maria Ransom Strayer University Alexandria Campus Professor: Jennifer Gallagher HTM 100 - Principles of Hospitality and Tourism Management February 3, 2012

This internship has played a huge part in my decision to pursue a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Organizations, as I have learned more about how a nonprofit is run and been able to see the impacts this organization has on so many people. During this internship, I have designed two websites, helped run a successful fundraising campaign, helped with our Facebook and Instagram accounts, taken pictures, and created many videos displaying the incredible things our organization does on a daily basis. Through this experience, I have been able to witness how much of an impact I can have just by being an intern. Being able to serve people with my talents of design and marketing in the office and seeing that benefit people outside of the office has been an eye-opening experience. For a long time, I thought that serving others was best done with hands-on service such as what I did on summer staff. However, during my time in the office, I have realized just how much work and effort goes on behind the scenes and what a significant impact it makes on our participants and their families, as well as our staff. Seeing all of this during this past semester has made me even more confident in my decision to pursue a Master’s degree in Nonprofit

• Implement industry best practices in areas ranging from organizational branding to loan processing (primarily by formalizing Navigate's operating procedures)

Today our guest speaker was Darren Berkman who is the General Manager at Rolling Hills Country Club in Monroe, North Carolina. He has been the general manager there for 5 years, but his career began way before coming to Rolling Hills. His career span stretches out over 30 years in the private club industry. He began his career New York where his father was a general manager at a private club. At the age 15, he began washing dishes for his dad who at the time switch to a career as a private cater. After high school he attend Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island from 1989-1993 where he graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in hospitality. In 1993, he was hired at the Marriott Hotel in Auburn, New York as the banquet manager he was later promoted to the assistant manager and room service manager for a while. He later took over the catering department for 5-6 years. He later became the banquet manager at the Adams Market Hotel. He eventually moved to North Carolina and became the F&B manager at a country club that has recently closed down. He later became the general

Due to my great passion and excitement for event planning, I applied for the summer Special Events internship program. I learned about this position through The George Washington University’s student job portal. I am currently a GW School of Business first-year student planning to pursue in the Sport, Event, and Hospitality Management concentration.

For this assignment, I searched around my workplace at Gameworks for a well qualified professional who knows plenty about hospitality. I was told by the general manager that there is a manager who studied hospitality in college. The Operations manager’s name is Samantha Birsen. She has been working at Gameworks ever since it opened. I noticed that she goes to work earlier than anyone else and does a great job at keeping everyone on their feet. I asked for her email and sent a message asking when it would be best to conduct an interview with her. During our interview, I asked her 11 concise and purposeful questions. I was interested in learning more about Samantha and about hospitality as a major and a career.

The fall semester was a great semester for me. Academically I have to seen it in my studies by my semester GPA of 3.73 accomplishing making the Dean's List. Also, I have enjoyed my work in the community by volunteering for a tutorial program at the local church. Over the course of the semester I have gathered over 50 volunteer hours serving my school, and the local community. The worst part of the semester is not finals week but the week after finals. Sitting at home after finals waiting for your professors to put in your grades is the most nerve-wracking, stressful thing about college. Every hour I kept refreshing the grade book hoping for good news as my professor slowly put their grades in one after another I slowly breathe a sigh of relief

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." Education is not preparation for life, it’s life itself! My educational goal is to major in Travel and Tourism. I plan to attend Broward College for a year to complete the prerequisite courses every incoming student must take. Then, I plan to transfer to Florida International University and take part in the most competitive hospitality school at FIU’s Miami Chaplin campus for three years. The Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management offers Bachelor and Master degrees with certificate programs in various hospitality specializations and Minors. Each student must start off by taking Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism Management. This course introduces the branch

Hello everyone and thank you for coming out to see us graduate on to BHS! I am Nekeria Ransom a METCO student here. If you don't know what a METCO student is it is a student is a kid who lives in Boston but goes to school in a different town. Now I’m fairly new to Bedford , I came here in 6th grade, and I can remember it as if it was yesterday. I was so nervous having to meet new teachers, being so far away from home ,and having to meet new friends since some of the kids knew each other since kindergarden. The first day of school I was on the phone with my sister Nekkitta the whole ride from Boston to Bedford asking some of the most ridiculous questions like “Where do I go when I get off the bus? Are the teachers nice? Who do I sit with?”

a.For Focus Student 1, the learning goal will stay the same, but they will be given a graphic organizer to help them meet the learning goal of the lesson. I will provide them with a reteach activity that will help her gain the knowledge to use diagrams to solve fraction problems. After the graphic organizer is accomplished, she will be given two questions again to work on her own to reach the learning goal fully.

During the Fall 2015 Semester at Old Dominion University, I was offered an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pursue an internship that specializes in fundraising and corporate sales for Florida Gulf Coast University Athletic Department. During the first week of my internship at FGCU, I was assigned by my internship coordinator to create several initial goals that were exceedingly met due to supportive co-workers and family members. In addition to meeting my initial goals, I had also experienced several significant learning experiences along with other highlights that have affected my professional growth and development, but also suffered major disappointments due to lack of resources that FGCU had provided for me as an intern. Despite the

As the semester started, I had set my mind that I was destined to achieve a lot. During the start of the semester, I had several difficulties writing English assignments especially in terms of grammar. During the first week of the semester, I sat down, organized my thoughts and comprehended that throughout the semester, I had to achieve all that I had planned for. As a student of English, I had planned that throughout the semester, I had to improve my skills as a scholar, writer and critical thinker. Now that the semester has ended, I can reflect all the semester activities to depict how my writing skills and critical thinking skills have drastically improved. This paper presents a reflection paper of how this

Five years ago was when I knew I wanted to work within the hospitality industry. This was the time in my life where I came to the realization that this fun and entertaining industry was a place where I could develop a career. Every since this time in my life I have been creating goals for my career and steps to achieve these goals. One of these steps to achieving a successful career includes attending a university to study hospitality. This step has brought me to this point, where I am creating goals specifically for this course. I believe creating these goals will put me in a position to better succeed. I know being successful in this course is important because the information taught will help me in achieving my career goals.