NextGen Scope

I always grew up with this belief that what I did in high school translated perfectly into college and what I did in college would translate perfectly into the professional world. While some of it did align, I now realize what an idealized way of thinking that was. Having done three internships throughout my summers in college, I have come to understand that adapting and succeeding in the professional world is also an individual learning experience – a learning experience that a college textbook or lecture cannot teach you. Don’t get me wrong. College has still been pivotal in the growth and transformation to become who I am today. Nevertheless, I am now more aware of the limitations of a co

Social media has become a part of our everyday lives and continues to expand into our realities as well. As an older member of Generation Z, I do still remember a time before social media and can still recall the first day I saw Myspace. My social media experience began in the seventh grade. My classmates and I had all begun to receive iPhones and Facebook was the new hot thing to do. I remember rushing home from the local high school football game to create a profile to try and connect with a cute girl I had run into at the game. Nowadays the story has changed; however, I feel social media has lost all of its “new car smell” and there is no longer a blind innocence to it. After all the data

We live in an era fixated with success. Defining how it looks, who exemplifies it, or even how to get there are a few of the conundrums that surround our curiosity on success. Trying to wrap our minds around success and explore its meaning is surely understandable because who doesn’t want to be successful, whatever that might mean. From the eye of a South-American international student who moved to Boston two years ago to pursue an undergraduate degree, life in a Western capitalist environment feels like a race just to get ahead. You need to have an outstanding education, excellent extracurricular activities, personal competency, ambitious internships, strong relationships that foster growth

As you know, the National Millennial Community (NMC) is a group of people within the millennial and Gen Z generations that come together from all over the world to participate in healthy conversations with business owners and corporate leaders. During these visits, the goal is to change the overall conversation and negative connotations attached to the millennial and Gen Z generations. After all, we are the generations in and newly entering the workforce and we are the largest group to date. Thus, our learning habits, preferences in the work place, and aspirations are opinions that can make or break a company as they are looking to hire our generations. We see today more and more that compan

I had the honor to attend a Worldcom PR Group conference in Vienna, Austria, with several members of the National Millennial and Gen Z Community--a group established by students from seven universities and IW Group. During the conference, one session stood out to me and triggered questions about why we even have to collaborate. Why do people work together when at the end of the day there are several sources or resources for them to use that do not require others to find or assist? This is a simple question with millions of potential answers. We all know the feeling of being involved in a class project with others we don’t necessarily want around or embrace. We may not have the same opinions

Millennials, those Americans born between 1981 and 1996, are so named because we are the first generation to have come of age in the new millennium. As for whatever narrative is told about my generation, I think it is a bit simplistic to make broad sweeping declarations about a diverse population of over seventy million people born over a sixteen-year period. With that being said, all I can do is tell my story and let the narrative tellers decide to what degree my story fits within the official millennial narrative. I was born in 1981 and graduated high school in 2000, so I consider myself to be an "Original" Millennial. Unlike my younger millennial counterparts, I had an analog childhood