Day 9: Internship

Sorry I'm a bit behind... Will post one for today later on.

Anyway, first day of my internship was Thursday -- headed in with the other intern in my department (Hub Strategy) by 9.30 am (when the work day starts, how nice). We missed free breakfast by about 10 minutes. BBDO is awesome... they have free pastries and bagels and coffee (including lattes and cappuccinos) in the cafe for employees every morning before 9 am, and then after 9 everything is available for really low prices. Also, there's always dry food available for free during the day (bars, cereal, etc.). And then after 5 pm the cafe turns into a pub with really low prices as well! It sounds like people who work there actually do head to the pub, too. Very cool that people choose to hang out at work after work.

We got a tour of the offices (7 floors) with another Notre Dame intern (he's in finance) and then headed to the Hub office. We got more oriented with what Hub does, which is marketing planning and research. We're going to be helping with a lot of different things, including the annual global Hub conference, which pulls in everyone who is anyone in BBDO globally. They have internal and external speakers to talk about different trends or strategies for the upcoming year. Very interesting.

We also got introduced to some of our resources, one of which is access to every ad in any medium, which I think just sounds plain fun. Watching commercials and analyzing print ads... awesome.

Oh, and I almost forgot - they brought us out to lunch. ("They" being the 3 women we will be working with, all around late 20s, early 30s. They're so nice and excited to have us there.) We went to this place called Yo!Sushi, which has different locations all around London and has different sushi and other dishes going around on a little conveyor belt. The dishes are color-coded (or should I say "colour-coded"?) by price, and you can also order other hot dishes. So fun! Best meal I've had in a while.

Anyway, I have my first main start on Monday, so I'm very excited for that. We'll see what my projects will actually be and I'll really start going on actual work hopefully. I'm bummed I work in the afternoon though, so I'll miss the breakfast.

Oh, one last thing. The CFO of BBDO Europe is a Notre Dame alum, so we got to meet him and chat for a bit. Very nice guy, and I hear his office is covered in ND stuff.