PC Mag Just Keeps Getting Better

Here is a picture of me at Little Italy with my friends Kaitlyn, Rebecca, Sharlene, Alison, and Sarah. We ate dinner there on Saturday night. We went to this one place--I can't remember the name of it--and had chicken parmigiana and it was incredible. The restaurant looked more ghetto compared to the others, so I didn't expect a whole lot in the beginning, but the food there changed that perception quickly.

Today was one of the best days at my internship yet. Carol assigned me with a new intern, Chris Gamput, to write a blog post on the top 10 Memorial Day gadgets. I browsed online and found lots of crazy and interesting gadgets for people to buy. One was a pocket sized grill, another a wireless baseball sport updater, and even a waterproof MP3 player. Chris also found some good ones and we compiled them all into one huge blog post. We are expecting this story to have some good traffic, considering Memorial Day weekend is coming up. It should also do well on Yahoo! Buzz. I really hope it gets on the Yahoo! home page. That would be sweet.

Does the day sound good yet? Trust me; it only gets better. Kyle Monson, an editor at the magazine and also a member of my church, invited me into his office this afternoon. He showed me a copy of our magazine last year focusing on the Top 100 New Websites and the Top 100 Classic Websites. He explained to me that this is the top story every year at PC Magazine. It gets the most hits on PCMag.com and it is highest selling print issue of the year. Literally millions of people read this article. He asked me if I would be interested in being one of the three writers that would write the story. I was shocked and excited all at the same time. I immediately accepted and will now be attending weekly meetings twice a week with a panel of about 5 to 7 people at the office to determine the Top 100 Websites out of several hundred. Once we determine this, the Top 100 will then be chosen. This, without question, will be my best clip ever, especially considering how many people will read it. The article, however, will not be published until November, but it will be worth it and will definitely pay off in the long run.

I feel blessed to have this internship. Some BYU students here in the NY program seem to have a rough time with their internships having to do all the errands for their employers like getting coffee, answering phone calls, and one of the worst I have heard--pick up their co-workers children. Not once have any of my editors at PC Magazine asked me to do favors like that for them. They immediately put me to work and treated me as a professional from day one.