At the Center for Student Professional Development, we work with students to reflect on their interests and experiences and identify themes and threads that tie them together. These themes and threads are clues – clues which help guide students in their search and help them think through their next steps.
We asked VMA students to take a photo and write a blog post to reflect on their experience on the trip. Here are some themes and threads that emerged from the visits and conversations on the trip:
- Embracing risk and ambiguity. Students want certainty, but need to be comfortable stepping out of their comfort zone and embracing risk.
- Connections are everything. Especially in the arts/media/communications/entertainment industries.
- Be open to all of the possibilities. Twelve years ago Facebook didn’t exist. Be open to the rapidly changing landscape in these industries. The job you will be doing ten years from now may not even exist right now!