Senior Refines Digital Skills with MCLA 实习

A number of visitors to MCLA's Facebook page likely have viewed a video that encourages students to enter the campus's Second Annual Entrepreneurship and 创新 Challenge. Produced with a "Shark Tank" theme, the video was just one of a number of short pieces shot by Messaoud克里斯 '18 of Brookline, Mass., to enhance the College's social media 存在.

A business administration major who concentrates in marketing and minors in economics, 克里斯称, "There is business behind everything you do in life.“他的梦想工作是 to work in real estate as an agent and an investor. 与此同时，他是MCLA的 社交媒体实习生.

"I've been making videos for years," 克里斯称. "I started making music videos and promotional videos from my iPhone 5 until I had enough money to buy the right resources."

As the 社交媒体实习生, Kerris works to increase MCLA's online audience. 这 internship, he said, will help him in any career he decides to embark upon, "because it teaches me today's art of marketing."

The Entrepreneurial and 创新 Challenge promotional video took Kerris 25 minutes to shoot, and just an hour to edit. When his supervisor, Social Media and 市场营销 Manager Francesca Olsen, suggested using the "Shark Tank" theme, "I said, 'Let's do ’”他说.

Kerris explained, "Every time 我拍摄 a video I know exactly how I want it to be before 我拍摄. I don't write anything down: I simply begin directing and shooting on set, 并在拍摄时进行调整. 我是一个人的团队."

He also is part of a new organization on campus, the "有色人种 Initiative.“ group's mission is to bring together and shine a light on the minority men at MCLA 谁在学校表现好. "It also helps minority men on campus seek help from people who look like them, so they know they are not alone," he said. 他人的导师 in the group, Kerris gives them advice as he shares his college experience and knowledge about other activities, such as investing.

A member of MCLA's rugby club, Kerris enjoys competing against other teams from Williams College, as well as Fitchburg State, Lyndon State, Keene State, and other universities 在该地区. He picked up the sport as a first year student at the College.

"I told my friend I would try it out and ended up loving it. 从那以后我就一直在玩。” 克里斯称. "Rugby is the closest you can get to football at MCLA, so that's why 我喜欢玩. I love how it's very aggressive and physical, but friendly, all at 同时."

MCLA最好的地方是什么? For Kerris, it's "Meeting the friends I have made, and the relationships I have built with my teachers, which is the most important part 总之，”他说.

Kerris chose the College in part because of its affordability. “这让我发挥了杠杆作用 my financials for investments so that I won't be a stereotypically broke college student 当我毕业时." In addition, MCLA is located in a "super nice community where I can focus on my school work without distractions."