Megan Walz Blog

Create Your Own Opportunities Being in college comes with the ultimate goal of finding a job. Most people, like me, also need to land an internship opportunity during their college career in order to achieve their coveted full time job opportunity upon graduation. One tough lesson to learn with all of this stress looming over my head was that these jobs were not the type where you can simply apply online and attach a tiny resume and hear a call back that you got the job like it was when I got my first few part time jobs in high school. No, these jobs required effort, a padded resume, and the art of networking. When I had first begun applying for internships the summer before my junior year, I was not the least bit of a "young professional". I had no clue what I was doing. I applied like crazy to jobs I found through the UGA Career Center website, LinkedIn, and all of the other job websites that existed. I spammed employers with my {barely there} resume in the hope th...

Cherish The Time You Have With Family In my family I am the oldest of three kids- my younger sister is 3 years younger than me and my younger brother is 8 years younger. When growing up, as is customary with the oldest child, I was always breaking down barriers with my parents that my siblings were then able to waltz on through such as later bed times and phone privileges. I had always felt like my parents were holding me back and not allowing me to grow up and be the "adult" I thought I was. When it came to high school (especially my senior year) fights became more prevalent and often ended with me yelling "I can't wait to leave this place and not have to be here with you" to my parents. At the time, I had no other way I could express my growing hostility towards them and I had felt like I deserved to be treated more like an adult with less restrictions and rules than my siblings.  Sadly, with all the fighting and hostility in the house I had grown...

Not All Friends Are Created Equal In high school I had a fairly large group of friends who were also my teammates. We spent every day with each other and never attended an event without each other. However, when it came to choosing colleges to attend we all seemed to have different viewpoints of where we saw ourselves ending up. For me, I wanted the big SEC experience with football and an old college charm. My friends on the other hand, decided they wanted to go to the smaller colleges like Berry and Georgia College. Graduation was a bittersweet time as we parted ways towards our respected colleges in the fall and sadly we all lost connection with each other.  Coming into college I knew that I wanted to join a sorority. Both my parents were in the Greek life and after leaving behind all of my friends I didn't want to be friendless. I decided to go through recruitment, found a house I thought fit my beliefs and preferences, and begun the search for those "lifelong fr...

Good Is Not Great - Always Keep Trying Before college I was always the student that didn't have to spend hours in the library studying for a test; I simply looked over notes the day of the test and got an A. While many of my friends were always telling me how great of a thing this was and how lucky I was to be able to do this, I never knew how much it was actually hindering me. So naturally, I came to college with that same exact mentality - "I don't have to study too hard, it worked in high school so it should definitely work now". Let me tell you, I was extremely wrong. When my first precalculus test came back with a big fat 43 on it, I was astonished and thought it had to be a mistake until I looked at the name on the paper and all the red marks littering the page. "This is it," I had thought, "I have to drop the class. I will never be able to pass this class". This grade was a wake up call and taught me right off the bat that college c...