William Kelly
Student at Boston College studying Communication
Thanks for visiting www.WilliamKelly.fun.
I built this site to introduce myself and to create a database of personal contacts, but halfway through its construction I began to question myself -- Are visitors going to enjoy my site? Will they be interested in my background? Does the site demonstrate my ability to communicate effectively?
I built this site to introduce myself and to create a database of personal contacts, but halfway through its construction I began to question myself -- Are visitors going to enjoy my site? Will they be interested in my background? Does the site demonstrate my ability to communicate effectively?
The answers became more evident the more I wrote about myself. I just haven't done enough yet to be tooting my horn so loudly. Sure, I have potential, but dedicating an entire website to my potential is, well, boring. Even my mother would be bored. Even worse, it made me appear clueless or at least seriously out of touch ... not a great look for a communicator.
So, I searched for something that would hold a visitor's interest while they learned more about me, and I discovered ... Manhattanhenge.
So, I searched for something that would hold a visitor's interest while they learned more about me, and I discovered ... Manhattanhenge.
(Pictures and quotes are taken from the American Museum of Natural History Museum and Neil Degrsse Tyson presentation of Manhattanhenge ... https://www.amnh.org/research/hayden-planetarium/manhattanhenge.)
Imagine it's May 5th (any May 5th) around 5:55 p.m. and you're in Manhattan walking north on 5th Avenue. When you reach 55th Street, you look west towards New Jersey, and you're shocked to see the sun setting precisely in the middle of the street's canyon of skyscrappers. This solar event is Manhattan's very own Stonehenge or "Manhattanhenge," a phenomenon that Jackie Faherty, an astrologist and Manhattanhenge-mapper, calls "Astrology in your face!"
We'll get back to Manhattanhenge in a minute, but first let me tell you a little about me. I'm a senior at Boston College studying communication. Nowadays, communication is more than being salesman-slick and talking fast, it's about being a virtuoso in the persuasive use of social media, email, video, imagery, statistics, AI, advertising, sales ... to name just a few. It's also about having and honing personal skills like awareness, perception, doggedness, thick-skinnedness, extroversion, and more.
Yes, I'm biased, but I believe I have what it takes to be good at it, and I have had some job success to back this up -- tour guide for BC High School, pizza deliveryman (don't laugh, it was a real education), social-media creator for the BC Bookstore, shoe salesman for Allbirds, clothing salesman for Vuori, and a summer internship on a client-facing communications team for Havas. No, this is not Don Drapper/Madmen-level experience, but it's a start. (DD is not a role-model, just a fun example.)
Okay, so I did slip in some horn tooting after all, but most of my personal details are layered in linked pages. Just click an icon if you're interested.
Yes, I'm biased, but I believe I have what it takes to be good at it, and I have had some job success to back this up -- tour guide for BC High School, pizza deliveryman (don't laugh, it was a real education), social-media creator for the BC Bookstore, shoe salesman for Allbirds, clothing salesman for Vuori, and a summer internship on a client-facing communications team for Havas. No, this is not Don Drapper/Madmen-level experience, but it's a start. (DD is not a role-model, just a fun example.)
Okay, so I did slip in some horn tooting after all, but most of my personal details are layered in linked pages. Just click an icon if you're interested.
Just the facts, Ma'am
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Back to Manhattanhenge...
So, how did they get 55th Street to line up so precisely with the setting sun on 5/5/yyyy at 5:55? They didn't, of course. As Neil DeGrasse Tyson, a world reknown 'splainer of astophysics tells it, the sun's asimuth (its horizontal direction) and its elevation are aligned with the street's vector just as the sun reaches its perigee at precisely...
Or, Manhattan's streets just happen to line up with the setting sun on certain dates. (Sorry, Dr. Tyson.)
So, how did they get 55th Street to line up so precisely with the setting sun on 5/5/yyyy at 5:55? They didn't, of course. As Neil DeGrasse Tyson, a world reknown 'splainer of astophysics tells it, the sun's asimuth (its horizontal direction) and its elevation are aligned with the street's vector just as the sun reaches its perigee at precisely...
Or, Manhattan's streets just happen to line up with the setting sun on certain dates. (Sorry, Dr. Tyson.)
What's more interesting than him debunking this mystery, though, is his expectation that in some distant future archeologists are going to discover the alignment and speculate that the dates on which it occurs had some deep meaning for us. After all, what are the chances that 55th Street just happens to line up so precisely with the setting sun every year on May 5th? Impossible, right?
Then with a twinkle in his eyes, Dr. Tyson asks, if perhaps we're making the same incorrect leap with Stonehenge. Which begs an even more interesting question, How much of our history and "what we believe" is based on some "expert's" theory supported by coincidental facts?
Just askin', but let's get back to me ... or rather back to you.
If I've learned anything so far about the real world, it's that your personal contacts are a valuable asset, which prompts me to ask you to leave me something -- advice, comment, criticism, suggestion -- in the form below. If you do, please know that I won't try to sell you anything; ask you for a job; give your contact information to anyone; be careless with your data; or stalk you. I may ask you a question or two one day, but my primary purpose right now is just to start building a network.
Certainly, in this day of information abuse, I will understand if you prefer not to leave anything. However, even if it's just your handle and a comment, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks, William
If I've learned anything so far about the real world, it's that your personal contacts are a valuable asset, which prompts me to ask you to leave me something -- advice, comment, criticism, suggestion -- in the form below. If you do, please know that I won't try to sell you anything; ask you for a job; give your contact information to anyone; be careless with your data; or stalk you. I may ask you a question or two one day, but my primary purpose right now is just to start building a network.
Certainly, in this day of information abuse, I will understand if you prefer not to leave anything. However, even if it's just your handle and a comment, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks, William
