Home Stretch.

One more week. That's it. Then I'm done with my co-op at Martino Flynn. It's been an incredible experience with the Greenhouse Internship... it's kind of like I've been working as an account executive for a mini ad agency for the past 2.5 months. I worked with clients, ran campaigns, worked with a team of creative and PR professionals, and got things done. I went into this not knowing what I wanted to do with my soon-to-be college degree, and I'm coming out of it with solid expectations. I'm looking forward to applying what I've picked up here to my spring classes - Marketing Metrics and Research, Typography, and Web Foundations. It should be an interesting (and totally awesome) combination.

I'm just going to take the advertising theme and run with it. Super Bowl anyone? I didn't care about the game, but I watched intently enough. Was rooting for the Steelers, but ah well... at least they made a game of it. But of course, my real agenda for the night was to review the infamous ads. I was pleased with the evening, overall... there were about 20 too many car commercials (despite that, Chrysler's 2 minute spot was impressive, but Audi's luxury-prison spot was a bit more entertaining). I personally think Doritos won the night, while PepsiMax fell horribly flat (how ironic that PepsiCo owns Doritos).

Seriously... hilarious:







...and awfully cliché and trite.




And the winner for most ridiculous idea ever...




With the exception of the always awful GoDaddy.com commercials, I'd say it was a mostly positive night in the world of Super Bowl advertising.

As stated in a previous post, I have a lot to look forward to... my 21st birthday, going home for a couple weeks, seeing Joshua Radin in concert ♥, going to San Diego over Spring Break with Honors Business, and the start of Spring quarter (yes, only an RIT student who's been on co-op for all of winter could honestly say they're looking forward to Spring quarter right now). Plus the second-to-last regular season home hockey game of the year... against none other than Canisius. The next month will certainly be a good one. For now, however, I'll work through this last week by watching old Bones episodes and rereading the Harry Potter series (yep, RIT and my boyfriend have brought out my inner nerd that remained suppressed all throughout high school).

Cheers!