Life Happens

28Jan09

It has occurred to me that I am very critical of myself. Nothing is ever really good enough in my own estimation, even though I’d often praise less from other people. Well, I’m going to try to change that.
In that spirit, here are a few realizations that I’ve come to:

While I still know that I [...]

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Teach for America- Update

13Jan09

I’ve been invited to the first round of interviews for Teach for America! My phone interview is Thursday at 1, more details to come.

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Tags: jobs, Teach for America

Accessibility

12Jan09

Earlier today, I found  myself chatting about my future with a nurse  who was drawing my blood. I’ve known her almost as long as I can remember, and after I told her that I was planning on going in to journalism, she had this to say:
Everything’s moving online. It’s not like you can just put [...]

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Tags: LinkedIn, musings, online journalism, research

Shout-out

06Jan09

Just have to continue the shout-outs to Suzanne Yada for these posts.
Odds are good that you’ve seen them already. But everyone in journalism should check them out.  Seriously. So on the off chance that you haven’t, here are the links:
Resolutions for journalism students, Part I: Become invaluable
Resolutions for journalism students, Part II: Network like mad

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Devolution

06Jan09

As I’ve sat in front of my computer for the last week and a half, fiddling around with my new copy of Dreamweaver, I came to a sad realization.
I let myself become a coding dinosaur.
Seriously. I’ve devolved.
Oh, I kept up on the basics of WYSIWYG designing–my various jobs on campus have required a lot of [...]

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Tags: coding, CSS, HTML, Journalism, musings