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

About the Pleiad

09Apr09

For those of you who are not on Albion’s campus, I’m writing this post to serve as a forum to discuss the changes to the Pleiad–starting next year, it will be one of the first college papers in the GLCA to move exclusively online. I wrote a column announcing the switch in this week’s edition [...]

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Tags: Journalism, online journalism, The Pleiad

Starting with an idea

30Mar09

At last night’s CollegeJourn chat, Suzanne Yada asked what our ideal start-up publication would look like.
My immediate reaction was this:
community based reporting, ties experienced reporter with “citizen journalist” to create in-depth web content
funded by the community
I know, I know, shame on me for lapsing on proper grammar and capitalization. Double boos warranted for not even [...]

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Tags: local coverage, online journalism, start-ups, teaching

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

Xampping it up

10Feb09

After a couple of meetings and numerous e-mails, I convinced the new EIC and the advisor for the Pleiad to let me move the newspaper’s Web site to WordPress last week. YAY! Huge improvement over FrontPage. The only downside is that I am the only one who can create the template for the site, and [...]

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Tags: LinkedIn, online journalism, Pleiad, webwork, WordPress

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

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

A quick note…

20Dec08

Despite the massively overloaded schedule I put myself through this past semester, I still managed to pull a 3.46 GPA. Short happy dance ensues.

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Tags: Life, musings, School

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

Overcommitted much?

11Sep08

I have always felt this compulsion to be busy. I’m not exactly sure what I fear will happen if I give myself time to breathe, but it must be pretty intimidating as I can’t remember testing it out.
This semester, however, I may have pushed the envelope a bit too far.  Between my course load (300-level [...]

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Tags: Detroit, Excuses, John McCain, Kwame Kilpatrick, Sarah Palin, The Pleiad