Saturday, July 3, 2010

LEAD and Beyond.

Hey

Back again with a new post. I've been quite the traveler these days and now that most of them are done and gone, I would like to share some of them with you guys.

So most recently, I participated in a program called LEAD Business and it was hosted at the Darden Graduate School of Business at University of Virginia. It was a three week program and I've amassed so much insight, knowledge and new found abilities and most of all: communications and friendships I could consider life-long.

I was paired up with 29 other students and sent into the world known as College that we all will soon enter in the following summer. Each with our own talents and personalities, we were broken up in to teams to create a website in which would involve social media to market a business started by real entrepreneurs. That was the main focus of the program. We had classes in business, and all the professors, and guest speakers were all friendly, personable and very informative. We also visited many corporations like Music Today, Exxon Mobil in Fairfax, AOL in Dulles, Capitol One in Richmond, FDIC in D.C. and we also had video conferences with people in salesforce.com, and digg.com. I really enjoyed all the visits and gave us an inside look at how these companies are run and what corporate life is like- although Capitol One is a bit different.

The other side was the nightlife and pretty much all the freedom a college student really has. We went downtown, ate ice cream and frozen yogurt, went ice skating, had a party, played sports and just hung out. It's was truly an experience like no other. Everytime i'm asked how my summer was, I will always say "Amazing."

Before that, I was in Florida soaking up some sun and hanging out with my friends before they went to college. And now, I will be headed to Murpheesboro , NC for a family reunion this weekend. Catch yah later.

After this post, I will have some videos up of some of the most profound lectures and my group's presentations at Darden and at AOL for the website release party!

Signing off,
Carter

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