During spring break, I attended the 50th AEJMC Southeast Colloquium on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I presented my research in progress on the content strategies used by MLB teams on TikTok during the off-season following the 2023 regular season.
My advisor, Sohana Nasrin, was an integral part in helping me craft my presentation for my honors thesis paper and pushing me out of my comfort zone to apply to present at this conference. It was a bit intimidating as an undergraduate student being surrounded by so many scholars, but I was able to both convey my knowledge on my niche topic with confidence and learn more about so many other areas about journalism and mass communication by attending other sessions throughout the three-day event. It was also cool to explore the campus and the town of Chapel Hill, and I was even able to see some of the school’s iconic athletic facilities even when spring break made much of the area feel like a ghost town. This was a valuable experience that I will never forget.