This week I am wrapping up my first week of classes in what will (hopefully) be my final year at college.
I have been through enough classes to know, what makes or breaks a class more than anything else is the professor. I have had professors who yell, prattle on, make off color comments, offer [...]
Category Archives: College
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Aug
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You’re handling young people all wrong
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Aug
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5 things I’d tell a future newsroom intern
I just wrapped up my summer internship. Overall, I’d say the classic cliches about internships: learned a lot about myself and the industry. I also learned a lot about how to get things done due to the nature of my particular situation (I had to create a site). Therefore, I had [...]
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Jun
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Ask Metafilter answers every J student’s questions
Ask Metafilter, a site where users can ask questions to be answered by the hivemind, has a great discussion around graduating as a Journalist in today’s world.
I’m a 25 year old journalism major riddled with major debt who has two years of school to go. How should I go about handling my debt situation and [...]
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May
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The broken record of Journalists
At the fine institution at which I am currently enrolled, many of the professors are often simply moonlighting, and are journalists by day.
Sometimes, I’m tempted to skip the first day of every class. We get the same warning every time and it usually goes something like:
“You know, you guys are entering the field in [...]