Spring Term: Update

Life has been very hectic since my last blog post! I’ve gone forward with my applications to transfer to a handful of four-year universities and am anxiously awaiting their acceptance or rejection. My major is still in History with the intention of continuing onto law school. I’m in feature writing because I needed more credits to finish my AAOT degree and it seems like it would be more fun than News Reporting and Writing. I was lucky enough last term to be awarded a talent grant to continue writing for The Commuter this term and so alongside the feature writing I’ll still be writing some no-nonsense news. One story I’m working on that I’m very excited for is on the trip by LBCC students to Texas to perform an experiment during the eclipse on Monday. It’s my most daunting undertaking yet, as it’s so multifaceted and covers topics that I’m personally unfamiliar with.

Three goals I have for this term are:

1) Making my turn-around on stories faster than last term. I tried to keep up the best I could last term but I want to make sure I’m really on top of things as they are happening so my stories have the best impact.

2) Balancing school and my personal life. This is especially hard with my journalistic work because it’s so flexible, I need to be able to flip what I’m doing on a dime to get in an interview or sit-in on an event. However, that same flexibility allows for procrastination and the opportunity to become overstressed. If I’m more proactive with my work and time management I hope to do an even better job this term than the last of keeping up.

3) Become more comfortable sharing my opinion. I made the goal last term to get comfortable sharing my writing, but since I was exclusively writing the news I never got too uncomfortable. Now, in feature writing, I have to do the complete opposite and I can already tell it’s out of my comfort zone.

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