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mhughe10

I'm 19. I'm a graduating senior in Global Affairs at George Mason University. Currently, I work as an RA in Dominion Hall, tutor in GMU's EIP, and intern with the Office of Student Media. In the past, I've interned at the State Department and worked in multiple university libraries and school offices. My hobbies include all of the arts (music, theater, sketching, pottery, you name it, and I've probably done it and loved it), movies (especially psych thrillers, kids movies, and foreign films), reading (though admittedly, I haven't been able to read for fun in a very long time), video games (I'm more of a console kinda girl, personally, so I usually stick to my ps2, Gamecube, and Gameboy/DS), and unintentionally constantly overloading my schedule (haha, just kidding- but seriously, with the amount of stuff I agree to do between school and jobs it is a wonder I will graduate this semester).

Reflection 2

This past week has been crazy as they all have been, but somehow I’ve still managed to continue posting from Twitter and actually managed to start posting a bit on our Media Facebook. That is definitely an improvement. Also, the new layout of Google Reader has REALLY helped. Otherwise, nothing really new. I was supposed […]

Posted by on April 28th, 2011 at 10:24 am | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink


Reflection 1 (to encompass the first month of interning)

I agreed to the internship on somewhat of a whim, not completely clear on what my job was or what my responsibilities would be, and it has been quite an adventure. Things I have learned so far: 1) How to use hootsuite, which encompasses its own special array of new techniques of managing social media […]

Posted by on April 21st, 2011 at 12:16 am | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink


Hello world!

Well, I officially have an OnMason account to be used for weekly updates on what it’s like to be a Student Media Community Management Intern!

Posted by on April 13th, 2011 at 11:32 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (1) | Permalink