By Regina Durley
Melissa Howard, Center junior, plans to attend a spring break trip to Chicago with her Communications 495 class. Dressed casually with blue eyes and long blonde hair she openly sat to tell me about her future trip.
The class gets together and plans the trip themselves. Each student is assigned his or her own project to complete. Howard is in charge of city tours. The class will leave during spring break and will stay for four days in the downtown area of Chicago. Howard has been to Chicago once before when she was in the fourth grade but does not remember so she is looking forward to this trip. She cannot wait to start touring the city with the class and out on her own.
“I have never really seen a true public relations person doing their job and I feel that seeing and visiting one in Chicago will be the experience that will help me get a better feel of the job and what not to and what to do.” Howard said while brushing her blonde hair out of her face.
Howard is a member of the Association for Women and Men in Communication. The AWMC hosts meetings with guest speakers.
She is also a former Kappa Alpha rush member, but is no longer with them because she wants to focus solely on her communications studies.
When Howard was deciding on which college to attend in high school she was stressed because of all of the choices that she had and finally picked the school that did not require an essay to enter.
When Howard first started attending SFA her major was biology. She then changed her major to undecided and finally settled at a communications major in public relations.
Howard has lived in a small city her whole life and wants to move to a big city in California for at least a year so that she can get a feel of real city life. She loves to travel.
Howard said, “I am excited about the trip. I think that it will be a good learning experience both professional and personally.”
