'"They said they were and would love to have me
interview. Now here I am!'" she says about her lucky break in
the internship hunt.
When she first started out this summer, Eloise found
herself working with promotions and advertising department of
the publication, which meant working on a lot of
spreadsheets. "I think I built up my credibility doing those
sorts of things,'" she notes. Still, like many interns, she
was often frustrated by days spent working on
Excel.?'"About a month into the internship I
thought I was going to quit because I couldn't handle it'"
she reflects, before adding, "but I stuck it out and it is
paying off more now."
How much more? Eloise has worked on some very cool projects
including a major role in the publication''s Action Culture
Time Capsule. She explains, "Rihanna and one lucky PAPER
winner received a bunch of free merchandise... I was in
charge of coordinating all of the clients and products and
making sure everything arrived on time.'" She also recently
worked on a luncheon thrown by the magazine for Parisian
boutique Collette.'"[It] was somewhat fabulous greeting the
guests as they arrived because everybody was somebody?
people big in the fashion world? and because of my work at
the luncheon, the Marketing Department decided they wanted me
to work for them more often,'" she says.
Hobnobbing with fashionistas is not the not the only
plus to her tenure at the magazine. Although the internship
is unpaid, she gushes when asked about her favorite part of
working for PAPER, "definitely being able to go on photo
shoots. They can be few and far between, but since I am
taking a minor in Photography and have been studying/teaching
it since I was 15 years old, it is great to be involved in
the shoots."
?The internship has been a
tremendous learning experience for Eloise in most of the
usual ways: she's learned a great deal about working in the
industry, had some valuable networking opportunities, and
built her resume with an impressive array of projects. Still,
one very important point stands out. '"I have decided that
this is probably not the line of work I want to go into," she
states; a monumental lesson for someone who''s concentrating
on magazine publishing in college! She knows one thing for
sure though: "I hope my internship will be a stepping stone
to other great achievements.'"
