Career Development

Top 10 Reasons To Choose The Master’s Program Over Portfolio School

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: 10. Let’s face it: your parents (AKA financial aid) prefer you get a degree. Your financial backers, whoever they are, prefer you get something that counts professionally. 9. You have never tried Art Direction or Copywriting? There are very few people in ad school who have. Why not try? It could be your […]

By |2014-04-01T22:23:35-04:00April 1st, 2014|A brand called you, Art Direction, Before the degree, Career Development, Fun with words and Copy Writing, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Top 10 Reasons To Choose The Master’s Program Over Portfolio School

Creative Misconceptions

Not every creative person is the same. Each creative has a different way of thinking of ideas, getting inspiration, and working with other creatives. People who don’t know much about the advertising world and know I am a creative, think that I sit in front of photoshop a few hours a day and make pretty […]

By |2014-03-21T16:57:35-04:00March 21st, 2014|Career Development, The CT Journey, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Creative Misconceptions

48 Things GSC Creative Master’s Program Does To You

 48 Things (& Counting) MS GSC – Creative Track Does To You. Growth is the only evidence of life – Cardinal Newman Believing in the words of Cardinal Newman, who said, “Growth is the only evidence of life,” I began the quest for evolution and fulfillment of my life plan. New York City is my calling, and […]

By |2014-02-18T21:03:32-05:00February 18th, 2014|Career Development, The CT Journey, The life of a Creative, Uncategorized|Comments Off on 48 Things GSC Creative Master’s Program Does To You

Work outside your title

Growing up in a public school system, they teach you to work independently. You are trained to view everyone else in your class as competitors. This is the Hunger Games and the odds are only in your favor if you can get the best grades in every subject, every time. It’s a lot of pressure, […]

By |2014-02-18T21:02:37-05:00February 18th, 2014|Career Development, The CT Journey, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Work outside your title

How a “Shitty” Campaign Won me Young Glory Gold

Working with different people is awesome.  By different people I mean a person from a different country, with a different background and with a different way of thinking. I was born in Uruguay, a very small country from South America.  So I have a very distinctive background. One of the best people I’ve ever worked […]

By |2014-02-18T21:01:12-05:00February 18th, 2014|Career Development, The CT Journey, Uncategorized|Comments Off on How a “Shitty” Campaign Won me Young Glory Gold

3 Tips to Survive (and Excel) at Miami Ad School

It’s hard to believe that it was only a little over a year ago that I graduated from FIU with by Bachelor’s degree in Advertising. Most people questioned why in the world I would want a Master’s degree that was so similar to what I had just studied, but I knew I needed a little extra qualification […]

By |2014-02-18T20:55:47-05:00February 18th, 2014|Career Development, The CT Journey, Uncategorized|Comments Off on 3 Tips to Survive (and Excel) at Miami Ad School

Survival Tips for Ad School

I have always thought of myself as someone who really knows herself. I take time on a regular basis to hang out with myself, I always have. As long as I can remember, I would go places by myself on occasion to just be alone with my thoughts, or read, maybe even occasionally draw or […]

By |2014-02-18T20:55:04-05:00February 18th, 2014|Career Development, The CT Journey, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Survival Tips for Ad School

The CT Journey

In the pursuit of knowledge Ever since I started the journey of pursuing my professional career, I’ve encountered different people and teachers that, on several occasions, have asked me about my future and what I want for it, about what am I expecting to get out of each experience, and about the goals I’m trying […]

By |2014-02-18T20:52:26-05:00February 18th, 2014|Career Development, The CT Journey, Uncategorized|Comments Off on The CT Journey

Education: the Big Challenge

Education is always a big challenge. I graduated from my first University almost 6 years ago. For now, I have 4 degrees and I am in the process of getting numbers 5 and 6 now. I graduated Magna cum Laude as a Bachelor in Business Administration, gained a degree in Marketing and Brand Management, took course on Corporate Finance […]

By |2014-02-18T20:40:27-05:00February 18th, 2014|Before the degree, Career Development, The CT Journey, The life of a Creative, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Education: the Big Challenge

Being a Creative works better blind folded

Most people think that when you map out your educational journey, you should have a clear idea of what it is that you’d like to do, and be direct about where it is that you’re going. However true this may be in a perfect world, the truth of the matter is that, for a large […]

By |2014-02-18T19:57:39-05:00February 18th, 2014|Career Development, The CT Journey, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Being a Creative works better blind folded