MAN BITES DOG

Last week I received my first assignments for journalism class; I had to write two articles.  I finished them both relatively quickly but worked hard to make them the best I could and edited them several times afterward, something I rarely do.  Today in class we got them back.  Before handing them out our professor said "these were your first articles so I'll consider them practice and not give you grades. Don't be offended if I was harsh, I am your editor so I will have to make changes.  The majority of these will have to be revised so just go back to the book and rework them, but there are a few that will say 'ready to go.'"  I was preparing for the worst because I've never written a news article but I got amazing feedback! On one of them there were a few grammatical errors but at the top she wrote "good read" and at the end she wrote "good job!"  On my second one at the top she wrote "wonderful!" and at the end she wrote "READY TO GO!"  I am SO proud of myself.  Being a journalist is not something I ever really considered but I am really enjoying this class. Talking to people and interviewing them is a bit tough for me but putting together the articles I find awesome and extremely gratifying and I obviously did well on my first ones.  Soon we will move past news and more into feature writing which I'm extremely excited about because I think I'll enjoy the process for those stories a bit more.

That's about all for now. I'm feeling a lot better today than yesterday. I went to pub night last night and hung out with people outside my normal social group and we had a good time. Last night I remembered to shut the shade so I got a little bit more sleep. We set the clocks forward again so, while I slept in until nine it was really only eight but it didn't bother me except that I missed breakfast and my normal cup of coffee. I laid out a bit today and got a little tan and a little burnt but nothing too serious. I'm about to go to Indian Singing Ensemble and then dinner, hopefully some homework and then I have a photo club meeting and a meeting with my group for my global studies project but they may overlap.  We meet all the freaking time and never accomplish anything so I don't really know why we're meeting, today I might just tell them I'm going to get my work done myself because it's a waste of everyones time.

I'll write more soon!  February 3 is the "Sea Olympics" which is like a day of contests between all of the floors and the winners get to get off the boat first in San Diego. I don't really care about getting off the boat first and I have my first exam the next day so I might skip out to study.

xoxo

ps. The title of this entry is one of our mantras in News Writing... a dog biting a man isn't news; a man biting a dog is.