It has been many months since you have been privileged enough to enter into the minds of the interns here at Inside Out Creative, IOC for short, and many changes have taken place. To start I am your, Humble Narrator 3.0, as the last intern so kindly dubbed us. 
And who am I you might ask? I am Julia Knopf, a last semester senior at York College (and my how the years have flown by). I come from the middle-of-nowhere, Georgetown, Delaware. I was raised by my very crazy, yet loving family; my mom an elementary school teacher of like a billion years, and my dad a car salesman/ sports announcer for all who are willing to listen. I chose York College because of the small friendly feeling it had when I first visited way back in November 2007. Once enrolled in school I found my major, Public Relations, or I really should say it found me. PR seemed the perfect fit for me a chatty overachiever. Later in my school career, when it came to applying for internships, it was a no-brainer. I had volunteered with the IOC crew back in February at the Taste of York. That event helped me see that IOC was the place for me.
Fast forward now to a few weeks into my last semester as a student and my first semester at IOC and I have been extremely busy here. In the beginning I must say I was scared. I remember the first day I walked in to IOC it was like the first day of school when you are a kid. I had picked out my cloths the night before, my nice new outfit for my first day. I walked in to the office and thought my heart was going to explode out of my chest. I asked myself, what if I look like an idiot? What if I can’t remember anything I learned in school? And of course, what if they don’t like me?
Well guess what? It all turned out okay. I am now sitting here a few weeks into my internship and I honestly love it. I will not lie to you there are those boring days where I just can’t seem to concentrate on my task at hand, but over all its smooth sailing. This internship is not like others that my friends have. One friend of mine lets call him Bob. Well he got an internship at a prestigious marketing firm. And guess how he spent his semester; lets just say he got to know the coffee cart man very well. IOC is nothing like that. Even on my very first day I was writing a press release, researching information for an event, and learning about new social media tools.
Nothing really has changed since that first day, I am still doing a ton of things with IOC. Bike night just happened a few weekends ago. That was my first bike night, and first event with IOC. It turned out awesome. The parade, the crowds, and of course the food. It was a lot of fun, and also very neat to know that I was involved in someway in hosting the event.
Now that you have had a taste of who I am, I hope that you follow me farther on my journey here at IOC. I am sure it is going to be a road with lots of ups, a few downs, but most of all a lot of new experiences.
