Playing Chess Backwards

Today is a short week here at Esente because of the 4th of July, so I'll only be here today and tomorrow. Normally I'm all for two day weeks, but we have really started getting into our projects and I want to keep doing more so this week having a day off is kind of sad. Ron has decided to have everyone here at Esente work on the 50 Project, which im excited about. Having about 20 interns working on it will help us do it faster and I bet there will be so many more ideas on how to reach out to bands and people who want to tell their story. I think that will the manpower of all the interns we may actually end up finishing the project by the end of the summer.
During the intern meeting this morning we learned quite a few valuable lessons. We learned how to make a deathly weapon out of news paper and duct tape, which I have to admit I was pretty skeptical about. After Ron assembled the weapon in under 30 seconds and let us all hold it, I realized that newspaper actually could do quite a bit of damage. The next time I'm walking somewhere alone at night I'll have to remember to start carrying a newspaper with me. The second lesson we learned (which was actually three) was that The Godfather one and two, something about the Green Bay Packers, and Avril Levine will teach us everything we need to know. Seeing as I've never seen the Godfather and the other thing I know about the Packers is that Aaron Rogers is their quarterback, I guess I have a lot to learn. One of the things that Ron has said a few times during our intern meetings is that we need to learn how to play chess backwards, and if we can do that, we can figure out how to win at anything. I really like this expression and I think it can apply to everything in life. I think that the further I get into this internship the more I am beginning to understand the tools and skills that I need to perfect playing chess backwards.
It's colder than usual in the office today and I really need to start remembering to bring two sweaters.

Shayna LaHaise
UMass '13
PR Intern