Introduction
My name is. I am a junior going into my third year at Florida Atlantic University. During my entire life I have been attracted to what makes people buy certain products. I would always show and make comments to family and friends, usually boring their minds with my observations. Into middle school and high school I enjoyed marketing myself and creating a name and reputation for myself. I used to do this through experiments within my own mind. I would do or say, sometimes extreme, actions to gather responses by fellow students. For example, my eighth grade year of middle school I ran for student body president. My campaign was to the extreme, using lyrics from popular songs, including my pretty girl friends to help make a statement during my speech and by word of mouth to the younger grades I successfully won the position. This is one of many ways I have marketed myself.
During High school I interned with two different companies who were trying to increase their notoriety throughout the community. My job was to help them do this, by handing out flyers, contacting local businesses to help get the companies name out. It was not until my last year of high school, when I was interning with Image Inside and Out, ran by a lady who taught successful business people how to dress for success and business etiquette, that what I had been doing my entire life was marketing. She explained to me what marketing consisted of, showed me that that was truly my passion. It is what I’m drawn to. I took her thoughts and advice to heart and began looking into what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. It became clear to me that this was my passion and upon coming to FAU I knew that I wanted to pursue a degree in the field I am drawn to, marketing.
However I did no ...