Undergraduate Blog / Author: Hwa Mok Lee

Broadening Your Perspective

Working at BeachMint has been a phenomenal experience for me. It’s hard to believe that my internship has come to an end so quickly. At first, I was really hesitant because all of my other friends were taking OEM or MCE courses during the summer so I felt like I was making a mistake by…

Pop Up Shop

While working as an intern at an online shopping company, I’ve been lucky to be exposed to a wide array of roles and projects that accumulate to build a strong brand such as BeachMint. Earlier this week, I worked at their warehouse/sample sale store. I’ve been to sample sales and pop up shops from different…

Stepping Up with Social Media

I spent the last couple of days researching a new tool in the social media hub that allows users to post videos on their profile. The application to pioneer this tool is called Vine and it was recently acquired by Twitter when it launched earlier in January. This was my first time hearing about Vine…

The Long Commute

It takes about two to three hours to commute from my home to where I intern everyday. Knowing that I’m a horrible driver, I decided to use the train to commute to work. You would think that the distance between L.A. and Orange County isn’t that far, but you always have to expect the worst…

First Week of Internship

The first day of any new field you enter, whether it is your school or workplace, is always filled with mixed emotions. On my first day of interning at BeachMint, I nervously entered through the elevator doors without a clue as to what to expect. I had been to BeachMint once before during my winter…