It's interesting how whenever I tell people that I intern for NBC, they automatically think that I'm on TV myself. Or when people see my NBC4 badge, they assume that I anchor the 5 o' clock news or something.

And even though it is a television internship at a major television station, that still doesn't mean that interns make their way on the screen. They already have reporters and anchors to fulfill those roles, and I'm just behind the scenes and at their sides learning more about what they do. So the life of a reporter is a glamorous yet grueling job. Viewers just see them on TV reporting the facts of the story, but they don't see the hours spent all day tracking down people to interview, driving to numerous locations, and then taking all that information and somehow factually framing it into a minute and thirty news segment.

But I have gotten some opportunities to be on camera whenever we're shooting "b-roll," which is the footage shot related to the story where the reporter is not shown. If someone is doing a story on the dangers of texting while crossing the street and they need people to sort of set up the scene, the photographer will use me to be that person who's on her phone unbeknownst to oncoming traffic. Or the camera will just get shots of me doing something at the fair or walking on campus because it might be at a time where no one is outside on the street or talking on the phone or walking their dog when that's the very footage they need to make the story believable.

And I would hear from people time to time who said they saw me on the news walking downtown or at the Rib Fest or a local church. So I guess in a way, I did get my 15 seconds (literally) of fame.