New Media Industries, AKA "Digital Brown Bag", strays away from the typical college class structure. It's a class designed to teach us how to be an adult directly from people we'll be like in years to come. Throughout many different seminars we learned multiple different hard skills and soft skills, like how to find a job, how to create boundaries in the workplace, how to develop a proper work/life schedule, the importance of building good credit, etc. I always used to wonder why classes like these didn't exist in high school, so I'm very glad that, at the very least, I got to take one in college.
We only had a few assignments in this class, and all of them were geared towards our personal and professional development. In addition to creating our own professional business cards, we got to choose three assignments to complete over the course of the semester. I chose the personality analysis, credit analysis, and Google Analytics certification. All three of these assignments were time-consuming but well worth it. The personality analysis was an introspective test designed to help you understand how you think and react to things. The credit analysis helped me look at my credit score, understand it, and understand the importance of keeping it stable. The Google Analytics one was also great to have. It was the most challenging development assignment, but as a Marketing major it, will be very useful to have. Being able to network with professionals in addition to these assignments was incredibly helpful and gave me a lot of insight as to what post-grad life is like, what to expect, and how to make the best of it.