{"id":16301,"date":"2018-04-20T09:17:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/?p=16301"},"modified":"2018-04-24T13:54:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:54:15","slug":"tusculum-student-accepted-as-intern-at-walt-disney-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/admission\/2018\/tusculum-student-accepted-as-intern-at-walt-disney-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Tusculum student accepted as intern at Walt Disney Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sydney McCallister, freshman English and History major from Greeneville<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Wilkerson, a senior at Tusculum, has been accepted into the Walt Disney Company\u2019s Disney College Program as an intern.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkerson, a graphic design major from Loudon, applied for and was accepted into the Disney College Program, a five to seven month program in which college students gain on-the-job experience in their preferred area of expertise and create a network of leaders and companies from all over the world. Graphic design will also be her focus in the Disney College Program.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16302\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16302\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16302\" src=\"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NicoleWilkerson2web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NicoleWilkerson2web.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NicoleWilkerson2web-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NicoleWilkerson2web-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NicoleWilkerson2web-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NicoleWilkerson2web-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NicoleWilkerson2web-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NicoleWilkerson2web-38x50.jpg 38w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Wilkerson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cJust apply, you never know what will happen,\u201d said Wilkerson, who encourages others to make the attempt to apply for something that they dream of doing.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Lay, director of Career Services at Tusculum, has helped students prepare for the application process since 2013. Lay\u2019s advice to students interested in applying for a Disney internship is \u201cresearch the website, prepare well and meet the deadlines for application.\u201d Lay continued, \u201cI recommend that students don\u2019t wait until the last minute. The preparation process usually takes longer than they expect, but they can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNicole is a very self-directed person and it was pretty clear what she wanted to do,\u201d said William Bledsoe, visiting assistant professor of visual communications and design. \u201cStudents should go above and beyond what is asked of them in class. If I asked Nicole to do one project, she\u2019d do three.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilkerson will be moving to Florida in August to begin her work at Disney as a photo pass photographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><p>By Sydney McCallister, freshman English and History major from Greeneville<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/admission\/2018\/tusculum-student-accepted-as-intern-at-walt-disney-company\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[131,91,7,19,1,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tusculum student accepted as intern at Walt Disney Company :: Tusculum University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/admission\/2018\/tusculum-student-accepted-as-intern-at-walt-disney-company\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tusculum student accepted as intern at Walt Disney Company :: Tusculum University\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sydney McCallister, freshman English and History major from Greeneville &nbsp; 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