Day 4

Day 4

It is Thursday. I’ve never been so dead and so alive at the same time. I haven’t eaten a real meal in days, haven’t slept at all, my shower scheduled is so messed up, but I am literally learning an incredible amount and having the best time ever. Today was my favorite day since it was a lot of PR. I started by going to the Jason Kreher meeting, where I had a small anxiety attack because of my excitement and feeling of pressure to meet someone who could potentially help me get my dream job. He made us all a little more relaxed about existing in general as millennials but also about eventually getting a job. Although he told me to chill I most likely will not chill even a little bit. I think I was born in a full fledged panic and have stayed that way since then. Anyways, loved hearing what he had to say. I’m feeling a little lost in the PR/Ad/creative word, I’m not sure where I’ll fit in yet but he encouraged us to find something we like to do and follow that path until we’ve learned a lot. I have absolutely no idea what that will be yet, which is wild since I used to always have a “plan” for careers since basically childhood. I’m realizing I should just follow my own thing. Then, I went to some Google speakers (who both liked my tweet about the discussion!) and felt all they had to show was very powerful, but a bit repetitive. Both of them multiple times introduced an accomplishment as something they were instructed to throw together in 2 days or 2 weeks or something insane and they would end up making incredibly impactful content such as an app and campaign to help Syrian refugees. It felt like they were basically downplaying everything they had done just to make the impact, such as virtual reality of dinosaurs to support sustainability on earth, that much more amazing. After that, I headed to the Martinez Hotel and met briefly with Gilad Kat. Honestly, he was very nice and supportive to the us as students, but I absolutely hated his Gillette shaving campaign. I feel like maybe it’s just because I don’t like babies or complicated technology very much, but I just thought that was odd and he didn’t give us much insight to getting where he is now. The rooftop was pretty sick though. THEN I went to the KFC + Wieden talk, which was overwhelmingly hilarious and entertaining. I feel so intimidated by WK, like how will I ever be witty or clever or funny enough to work for them?? The two of them telling their story of rebooting KFC while explaining their genius behind it was both a great learning experience and just proved that anything can be done in this industry. So I also went to the awards ceremony last night which was so inspiring and fun, and now I honestly can’t wait to figure out my path and how I want to go down this road so I can land a fabulous job and hopefully compete in Young Lions. After the awards I got into a yacht party with my ~networking magic~, basically had the best time ever and acted so cool as though it was my 100^th time on a yacht, and now I’m ready to POWER THROUGH ALL THE SLEEP AND FOOD DEPRIVATION FOR THE LAST DAY OF CANNES LIONSSSS! I’m sad it’s over. But it was in fact, the best.