November 2008
1 post
I know it's long, but I had a lot to say...
This blog post is going to come straight from the heart. I don’t have any facts or figures, just straight talk. Barack Obama won. An African-American man from the South Side of Chicago won. Just typing these words seems very surreal to me. I can’t even express in words how this makes me feel. I’m not usually an emotional person who cries over joyous occasions, but this makes me tear up. I...
October 2008
5 posts
Almost EveryBlock...
EveryBlock is the most amazing thing ever!!! I love it! I just wish I knew more Chicago address to input. I live way out in the south suburbs, so they don’t have my particular area in their database. I did, however, look up my grandfather’s house on the west side. I know the west side of Chicago isn’t known for their outstandingly low crime rates, but what I saw was down...
Oh, How Life Imitates Art...
So, yesterday I was watching this show on the Discovery Channel called Mystery Diagnosis. I’m usually not into this show, but this particular episode caught my interest. It featured this woman suffering from a disease called Morgellons Fiber Disease . What was interesting is I believe a recent movie was based off of this illness, a movie that scared the living daylights out of me. With...
I seriously have a problem...
This entry is going to be one of those really random rants, so bear with me. I’m one of those people, who once they find somehting they like, can not get enough of it. I’m like that with musice, like if I hear a song that I absolutely love, I NEED to play it over and over and over again. I’m like that with movies; I will watch my favorite movies night after night. I’ve...
LSAT
This up coming Saturday is the day I take the LSATs. For those of you who don’t know, the LSAT is the law school admission test. Pretty much like the ACTs or the SATs, it’s a test that judges how well you will do in law school and weighs heavily on what law school you are eligible to apply to. I’ve been preparing for this test since early summer, however, I’ve only been...
Group work...
I’ve never really had a “bad experience” working in a group for a class assignment, however, I’ve had some pretty frustrating times. One particular incident I can remember is my first year here at Columbia. I was taking a critical thinking course and we had to break up into groups of four and debate against another group on a specific topic. Now, initially, we did take...
September 2008
4 posts
Me and the Internet
When posed with the question, “How the internet has changed my life,” I really don’t know how to answer it. I think I’m too young to remember a time when computers and the internet were not available some kind of way. I remember as early as second grade using computers in school to learn to type and play games. My first experience with the internet that I can remember is my third grade best...
Future of News
I’ve been hearing a lot of people talk about how the “old” ways of doing journalism will become obsolete within the next 10-15 years or so. With that, the job market for print journalism will drop; and so too will the market for radio and television eventually. However, I’m not that all concerned about newspapers going bankrupt because of the loss in readership. News is definitely something...
The evolution of the city bird
I’ve lived and grown up around the city of Chicago my whole life, and surprisingly, I still find aspects of the city fascinating and downright funny. This past week was the first week of classes, and my first week of being downtown in a while. It took me a couple of days to get back into the swing of things, like how to walk down the street and talk on a cell phone without getting hit by...
Day 1
Day one of Online Publishing and Production.