Hog Heaven: Ļć½¶Ö±²„senior explores hunger for adventure through āFind Your Freedomā summer internship
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.āIn more ways than one, Mississippi State senior communication/broadcasting major Brock St. Clair is on the ride of a lifetime.
A Germantown, Tennessee, native and Starkville resident, St. Clair is among eight students who are participating in an eight-week āFind Your Freedomā summer internship experience sponsored by Harley-Davidson. Selected from 7,500 applicants from more than 30 countries, interns also represent Long Beach, California; Wuhan, China; London, England; Miami, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Cape Town, South Africa and Kennan, Wisconsin.
Aboard a āHard Candy Hot Rod Red Flakeā Street Glide Special motorcycle furnished by Southern Thunder Harley-Davidson in Southaven, St. Clair is touring the country and producing content representing the motorcycle manufacturer on his personal social media channels. In addition to YouTube (Brock St. Clair), St. Clair can be found on Facebook @brock.stclair, Twitter @imnotadolphin and Instagram @dont_brock_the_boat, using hashtags #FindYourFreedom, #HarleyDavidson and #sponsored.
āWhat I love so much about this company is that they made a big point to say they want nothing but our opinions, our personalities, our style,ā St. Clair said. āTo have the chance to tell stories and get this recognition from a company with as much stature and history as Harley-Davidson is very reassuring.ā
To apply for the āFind Your Freedomā internship, St. Clair, a student in MSUās Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College, created a video illustrating his thoughts on āfreedom.ā In the video, he reflects on ways his Ļć½¶Ö±²„experience has challenged him to get out of his comfort zone and think independently.
āTo me, freedom means choices. Having freedomā¦having choicesā¦you can shape your own future. Thatās liberating and terrifying,ā he said.
In 2017, St. Clair successfully auditioned for the universityās Lab Rats Improvisational Comedy Troupe. To date, he has performed in more than 30 shows and will serve as the troupeās head director starting this fall.
St. Clair said his involvement with Lab Rats has connected him with āsome of the most incredible people I have ever knownā and encouraged his interest in pursuing other academic and social activities.
For the past two years, St. Clair has hosted a morning radio show āCooking with Brockā every weekday for MSUās noncommercial, community radio station WMSV FM 91.1. Since January, he has gained filming, editing, directing and production experience as a student worker for the University Television Center.
Along with learning how to ride a āhog,ā St. Clair said he has enjoyed visits to the Harley-Davidson Museum and is looking forward to celebrating the companyās 115th anniversary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
āIām proud of myself because I live out of my comfort zone every day, and Iām hungry for more of that. And itās all because of that one choice,ā St. Clair emphasized. āGoing to that (Lab Rats) audition completely changed everything.ā
āMake the choice. Donāt think about it,ā he advises other students. āJust make it. Do it.ā
Learn more about MSUās College of Arts and Sciences and its Department of Communication at and . Lab Rats Improvisational Comedy Troupe can be found at .
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