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Hello. My name is Lily Jacobs.
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I’m a sophomore here at Emerson,
graduating in 2026.
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I’m a VMA major,
and over the last summer,
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I took an internship at Katch University,
which is a human-powered AI company.
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I was a media genome analyst intern
where I learned the code,
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that Katch created and watched movies
and then coded the movies.
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And that’s how Katch got their information.
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I found this internship
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on Handshake, which is a website Emerson
granted us access
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to. I decided to take the internship, because it is
something I genuinely had never heard of.
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It’s something that I don’t think
I ever would hear of, but will for sure
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gain traction
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and popularity within the industry
with the rise of AI and new technologies.
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I am personally very interested
in the business aspect of film
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and other than the obvious positions
that there are,
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I wanted to branch out and learn more that
I might not get in my immediate studies.
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There’s around close to 100 interns
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and they call it Katch university
because they kind of treat
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their interns like students in the sense
that they’re teaching them
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a new code
as well as wanting them to collaborate.
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They divided us all up into clubs
and I was in the production club,
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so me and 20 other interns made a film
and I was able to be
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the lead of that club and kind of assist
all the interns in what to do.
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And it was honestly just a really fun
environment and a good way to get to know
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all the other interns.
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My favorite part of the internship
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was probably the weekly Zoom meetings
we had with industry professionals.
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I got to talk to many producers
of my favorite movies
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as well as people a part of the company
doing awesome jobs
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that I would love to learn more about
and even maybe shadow one day.
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That would be openness to learn
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and ability to adapt, because this is such
a new concept that everybody is dealing
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with where you can’t go into it
knowing exactly what you’re doing.
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You just have to be able to be okay
with not knowing and be okay
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with learning and maybe failing a bit
because in the end it will always
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come together.
