Victoria Secret Internship: August 30-September 5

This week Shay and I met on Wednesday afternoon for a while. We discussed many different things we have coming up. We tried to contact Housing & Food to see if we could set up a table outside of the dorm and cafeteria to promote the VS Pink brand and get girls to sign up for Pink Nation. Housing & Food said that since we weren't a student organization and we weren't a non-profit organization it would be $400 to set up outside the dorms or in the student

union. This was a huge set back for us since we were planning on using these two areas several times this year. There was a lot of communication that took place when dealing with OU Housing & Food. There were so many different people we had to communicate with, and not everyone was always available to talk. We left several messages and had to wait around for people to call us back. It was a reality check as to how it is dealing with people on a day to day basis.

We split up the other activities we had planned on doing this semester. Shay was in charge of contacting all of the different sorority houses to see if we could come to houses and give away freebees and promote the brand and Pink Nation. Shay was also in charge of contacting the store manager of the Victoria Secret store at the Sooner Legends Mall to see if we could come in soon for a shadow experience and see how a real VS store was run.

I was in charge of contacting the Homecoming Chair of this year to see if we could incorporate our philanthropy project into the homecoming activities. We learned at brand training this summer that we were in charge of a clothing drive that would assist a local Norman shelter. We knew a great way to get students to donate clothes would be to make the whole thing a competition. I know several people on the homecoming committee so I agreed to try and arrange it. I also was in charge of contacting the previous VS Pink Interns from OU to see what they had created in terms of social media. We wanted to get the previous Facebook and Twitter passwords, or create new pages all together.

Shay and I also discuss the STYLE U pictures that were due the upcoming Monday. As a part of our internship, we are in charge of taking pictures of girls at football games which show the style of girls here on campus. Our two hour meeting was just what we needed to get on the same page and organize our efforts.

I filled out another survey online concerning some skirts that VS Pink was thinking of adding to their collection. I didn't like the skirts and I didn't think my friends or I would buy them so I made sure to make that clear to the VS designers.

On Saturday I carried my camera around with me and took pictures at the tailgates and at the football game for the STYLE U. I really had fun taking the pictures and talking to the girls. Oklahoma played Utah State, and we won! Everyone was in a good mood after that, and it was really easy to get the girls to pose for the pictures. That evening I uploaded the pictures on to the VS Pink intern website. Hopefully the pictures will effectively show the VS employees how we dress here at OU for game days. The pictures are so the VS Pink designers can design clothes that will sell here on our campus.

Example of Style U Pics: