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The Disney World According to Mona! is my yearbook, for a lack of a better word, of my life from 1995-2000. The pictures above are just a glimpse of the life I had for five years. The long-life friendships, very dear memories, a love and understanding of the corporate world, and the 30+ people I call my ex-roommates happened because I saw a simple green poster of Mickey Mouse asking students to attend an orientation to work at Walt Disney World back in 1993. The first time I interviewed, I received a rejection by then College Recruiter Rick Neely. That didn't stop me, I re-applied the following spring and ended up working Walt Disney World Resorts in Orlando, FL on two WDW college programs and two advanced internships.

Locations I've worked: Soundstage Restaurant & Rosie's Red Hot Dogs on Sunset Blvd during summer 1995, and the World Famous Jungle Cruise the following summer. I lost my voice several time in the Jungle, so one day I worked as greeter at the Haunted Mansion, that was way fun. "Please fill in all the available dead space. [pointing at the space in front of the guest] Look dead space, fill it!" I had a great time fall of 1997 working at Magic Kingdom guest relations. Then after graduating from Auburn University (Alabama), I moved down to Orlando and finished off my last advanced internship with Florida Tourist Sales. For nine months in 1999, I worked with a 3rd party marketing firm being an overpaid cast member with the IBM exhibit at Innoventions. I left Orlando for good August 2000 and would go back in a New York minute if I had a marketing job with WDW.

This site has been around since March 1997 and one of the first The Walt Disney World College Program Alumni pages. The content in this site has nothing to do about how to get into the program (look at Disney Links for the official websites). In fact, my first college program experience is obsolete. I received my Ductorate degree by sleeping through 10 boring seminars. None of that portfolio building, CPs has to do now. I can, however, try to find an answer to your question if I do not know it. I still have friends who work at WDW and read up on current Disney events. My point is, my purpose of this page is for me to look pictures and remember how much fun I've had with life. I hope you find what you were looking for in here or anywhere else in between.