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This is my fourth year of participation in Professional Discovery Week.  I’ve been eager to learn as much about the real world as possible while at Elon, and I highly encourage other students to go to these events.  This year I began PDW by attending “Careers with Communications Alumni.”  Featuring a panel of four recent alumns, including Lindsey Porter (2005), Scott Adams (2007), Alex Chrictmen (2008), and Kathryn McWade (2007), the session held in McEwen 011 was over filled.  The highlight of the event was this video of Larry King talking directly to Elon students.   As expected, all of the alumns were involved in extra curriculars and internships while students here and usually got their jobs through networking.  Scott Adams volunteered in Kenya the summer after he graduated, and he used this as a major benefit when interviewing for jobs.  International service work is something that also interests me, and perhaps I can volunteer in another country in the future.  Kathryn McWade is Larry King’s research assistant.  She goes to his house almost everyday and debriefs him on the interviews.  That seems like a pretty impressive job, being face-t0-face on a daily basis with such a well known face in journalism.

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