FIRST DAY!

Just as a warning right off the bat, this post is most likely going to be pretty long! I apolozige about the length, but it's mostly about Ogilvy and how awesome it is, so if you're not interested, just don't read it!

I swear, it was impossible to sleep the night before my first day! It was a kind of "it's Christmas and I'm so excited I can't even sleep" feeling, mixed with the paranoia of "Oh shit did I miss my alarm!?" which resulted in waking up every half hour and frantically grabbing my phone. I did in fact get up on time, get ready, and take the correct train! Everyone had to be to work by 8:30 for our day of training. I met a fellow PSU-er, Arielle, in Times Square so we could walk to Ogilvy together, and we ran into Tyler along the way.

We ate breakfast, met all of the other interns, and filled out some paperwork. Spencer Osbourne, who has worked with Ogilvy for 17 years, welcomed us (he was SO hilarious). He gave us some great advice and had the whole room laughing. He also told us that we were chosen from something like 700 applicants, so we should be proud of ourselves!

We spent a lot of time doing tech training for the inter-office communication program called LotusNotes and also learned how to enter our time sheets online. Training was intermixed with a few coffee breaks, chances to mingle with all of our fellow interns and some Ogilvy employees, and lunch!

Rae and Marcus gave us a tour of the building! This place is so full of amazing things:

• A rooftop deck (with SUCH a beautiful view)
• A barber shop (complete with the barber that actually cut David Ogilvy's hair)
• Nurse Penny's office (kind of like a school nurse -- and she has a massage chair)
• A gym for employees (only like $30 a month)
• Eyepatch (their in house production studio)
• An awesome cafeteria and faux Starbucks
• Pieces of art and murals all over the walls
• A bike program (you can just borrow a bike and ride it around for a while!)

The roof!

These pictures don't do it justice.

A cool piece of artwork!

They also told us about different events and networking opportunities:

• Tuesdays@2 - Educational events with speakers from both outside and inside the company
• Professional Networks - groups within the company for different ethnicities and interests
• Wet Wednesdays - Social events sponsored by one of the professional networks, usually 1 every other month which include things like food, alcohol, and entertainment!

We met our business leaders, Morgan and John, who will be our key contacts for anything internship program related, like our scavenger hunt, group projects, and Lunch-n-Learns (every Tuesday we all get together to eat lunch and listen to a guest speaker in preparation for our final projects).

At the end of the day, I finally got to meet my manager, Amanda, who introduced me to other people on the Avon account (my co-workers for the summer!).

Although we had a lot of information thrown at us all at once, and I have over 30 new names to remember (not my strong suit), it was such a great day and I'm so excited about this opportunity!

I probably left out a ton of things we did and people we met, but I just can't remember it all and I'm sure you're sick of reading!