Spring Break
The Daily OrangeBerman: Dream job? SU sophomore living it in San Antonio
By Zach Berman
Posted: 3/27/08, 1:08 AM EST Section: Sports
For the student who skipped last Thursday's classes to watch the NCAA Tournament, for the student who sat in the back row on his laptop with March Madness On Demand on the screen and the "boss button" easily within hand and for the student who cursed Belmont's final five seconds, here's something that will make you jealous.
There's a Syracuse sophomore down in San Antonio, spending three weeks in a motorcoach with six flat-screen televisions, the Internet right in front of her with no task but to watch as much college basketball as possible and jot down notes on a blog about those games. All expenses are paid, and if she does this dutifully, she will attend the Final Four.
And you thought Acapulco during Spring Break was paradise.
Her name is Stacey Rice. She's a broadcast journalism student who received an e-mail from Newhouse last month advertising the Coke Zero Dream Job. The promotion looked for passionate college basketball fans, with the winners blogging from San Antonio in the three weeks leading up to the Final Four and, upon completion, going to the Final Four with former San Antonio Spurs All-Star Sean Elliott. (Apparently Mitch Richmond and Jimmy Jackson weren't available as high-scoring swingmen from the 90s.)
Rice applied, writing an essay about Syracuse basketball and a photo of her in Syracuse garb in her room at home in Oswego, N.Y. The room is a shrine to SU basketball. In the photo, Rice held an Orange sign that read "Pick me Coke Zero! Go Orange!" Rice's fanaticism was enough to convince the selectors to provide her with a chance for a dream job - along with three other college students - from a pool of more than 500 resumes.
"I thought, they created this contest for me," Rice said. "But I didn't think I had a chance."
She learned of her selection right before Spring Break and quickly negotiated with teachers a way to miss three weeks of classes. During her off days, she completes homework and e-mails assignments to the professors. This is the lone solemn part of the story. The rest of the time is devoted to college basketball, blogging and eating Papa John's.
There's a Syracuse sophomore down in San Antonio, spending three weeks in a motorcoach with six flat-screen televisions, the Internet right in front of her with no task but to watch as much college basketball as possible and jot down notes on a blog about those games. All expenses are paid, and if she does this dutifully, she will attend the Final Four.
And you thought Acapulco during Spring Break was paradise.
Her name is Stacey Rice. She's a broadcast journalism student who received an e-mail from Newhouse last month advertising the Coke Zero Dream Job. The promotion looked for passionate college basketball fans, with the winners blogging from San Antonio in the three weeks leading up to the Final Four and, upon completion, going to the Final Four with former San Antonio Spurs All-Star Sean Elliott. (Apparently Mitch Richmond and Jimmy Jackson weren't available as high-scoring swingmen from the 90s.)
Rice applied, writing an essay about Syracuse basketball and a photo of her in Syracuse garb in her room at home in Oswego, N.Y. The room is a shrine to SU basketball. In the photo, Rice held an Orange sign that read "Pick me Coke Zero! Go Orange!" Rice's fanaticism was enough to convince the selectors to provide her with a chance for a dream job - along with three other college students - from a pool of more than 500 resumes.
"I thought, they created this contest for me," Rice said. "But I didn't think I had a chance."
She learned of her selection right before Spring Break and quickly negotiated with teachers a way to miss three weeks of classes. During her off days, she completes homework and e-mails assignments to the professors. This is the lone solemn part of the story. The rest of the time is devoted to college basketball, blogging and eating Papa John's.
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