That’s it

07Oct09

There are some moments when you stop and think, “That’s it. That’s why I’m doing this.”
I’d like to say that my most recent epiphany came from something profound, intellectual or otherwise respectable. But no. It came from watching a movie. Frankly, I’m just glad it wasn’t a commercial. Or worse, an infomercial.
Monday night, after a [...]

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Tags: celebration, jobs, musings

“So you’re the one who took Frank’s job”

21Jul09

I knew almost immediately upon starting my job that I had big shoes to fill.
The reporter I was replacing, Frank, was greeted at every meeting I shadowed him at with certificates, farewell speeches, hugs and parting gifts. I heard tales of how he was beloved in one community because he was the first Ionia Sentinel-Standard [...]

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Tags: Journalism, lessons learned, musings, networking

On the job

23Jun09

The last you heard from me, I was in the transition week between college and full-time employment. I was all geeked out about starting my job; bragging about how lucky I was to find a job in journalism, particularly a full-time reporter position and kind of waving off all of my obligations.
Now I’m over a [...]

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The great beyond

13May09

Two weeks ago, I was celebrating my last class of my undergraduate career. Last week, it was my last exam. And then four days ago I walked across the steps in front of Kresge Gym, accepted my diploma, and drove away from Albion for the last time.
I still don’t think it has hit me that [...]

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Tags: celebration, jobs, Journalism

The road ahead

24Feb09

Well, after a couple months of scrambling and weighing options, I know the basic direction that I’m headed after I walk across the stage and leave Albion for good come this May. Come next fall, I’ll be moving into a new dorm on a new campus as I pursue my teaching certification at Saginaw [...]

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Tags: future, Journalism, musings, Teach for America

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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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

Choices

23Dec08

I have  always known that down the road, I want to teach. In part because it’s just something I want to do, in part because I know that a career in journalism is not conducive to also being a soccer mom–which, although I’m nowhere near that stage in my life right now, I know I’ll [...]

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Tags: Choices, Life, musings, School, Teach for America, Work

I’m still alive, I promise!

05Dec08

I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but it’s been a while again. I didn’t fall off the face of the Earth, I promise. I’ve just been forced to think about some things.
It’s the end of the semester, and my goal of being able to post once a week at minimum obviously was not [...]

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Tags: Limits, musings, School, The Pleiad, Work